Fab4Linux

Nathan,
You're right, we don't have the website up yet. Since you asked . . .
<marketing pitch follows>
Fab4Linux is (we believe) a new step in the evolution of the graphic user
interface. It's a program that will allow you to perform many of the
operations that required use of the mouse with the keyboard, which is far
more efficient. (Not that the mouse isn't good for graphics-related and
infrequently-performed tasks, it is.) Unlike the command line interface, you
won't have to memorize a lot of commands and options. Fab4Linux assigns
commonly-performed tasks (program launches, text insertion, window
navigation) to the three main rows of the keyboard, and creates a graphic map
on the desktop that lets you see assign captions and icons to the keys.
Unlike traditional macro programs, you don't have to remember what the key
sequences are, and, because there's a visual map of the keys, you can have
multiple menus for multiple purposes. It's designed to get out of your way
(so you can type normally) with a single key press, and be re-activated with
one control+key press. It's still in the beta stage right now, and I demoed
that beta for the east and west side meetings. It's not open-source, but
we're giving away the betas and we're planning to sell the final product
pretty cheap, probably $30 or less.
<end pitch>
If you're interested, I can send you more info.

Vaughn Treude
Nakota Software, Inc.
in association with Fabuluss Software (Fab4Linux)

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:53, you wrote:
> What is Fab4Linux ?
>
> Google returns a couple links to the as yet web site...
> Being in Payson, I don't make the meetings!
>
> nathan
>
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:06 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > So, post a review, those of you trying it out. Do you like it? Does it
> > work? Are you using it on GNOME or KDE or both? Where/when can others
> > get it?
> >
> > When they presented on the east side, they were not ready to provide it
> > to us.
> >
> > Someone write up a summary of the meeting and submit it as a news item on
> > the web site. Then, someone write up a review for the Review section of
> > the web site.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> > From: BoBB <snoogans@qwest.net>
> > Sent: 01/29/03 11:42 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Fab4Linux
> >
> > > There was talk at the meeting of how to try out the software without
> >
> > possibly fubaring your system(Michelle was the unlucky first one) and i
> > found that if you just open up /etc/ld.so.conf and at the bottom add
> >
> > /where/you/untar'd/it/Fab1-02/lib
> >
> > save it and run ldconfig. Then you can run Fab4Linux from the Fab1-02
> > directory. It runs great except at 1600x1200 it takes up alot of room
> > heh. probably 1/3rd of the screen, haven't found a way to make it
> > smaller yet aside from shrinking the window size but the keys dont scale
> > down =/
>
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