[dot] 3DConnexion Donates SpaceNavigators to KOffice

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1206028949/

From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
Dept: gadgets!
Date: Thursday 20/Mar/2008, @09:02

3DConnexion Donates SpaceNavigators to KOffice
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   A couple of weeks ago Hans Bakker, who had never touched KOffice code
before, started hacking on a Krita plugin for the 3DConnexion
SpaceNavigator [http://www.3dconnexion.com/]. Within a week or two he
had a working plugin for Krita and it quickly became clear how cool
these little devices are and how many possibilities for new user
interaction paradigms they afford.

     So Hans suggested contacting Ettore Pasquini from 3DConnexion about
the possibility of them donating a SpaceNavigator to the KOffice project
for testing purposes. Well, that was only last week, and this week a box
with three SpaceNavigators already landed on my desk. These are nice,
solid feeling, attractive to handle things that come out of the box with
drivers for Linux.

     For an early review of what is possible with the SpaceNavigor on
Linux, see this review on Linux.com, SpaceNavigator: An affordable 3D
controller for Linux.
 [http://www.linux.com/feature/60918]
     I will be distributing them among KOffice hackers for playing with
and testing Hans' code this week, and I am sure that during the
development of the KOffice 2 series of releases we will find more and
more interesting uses for this unusual and fun interaction tool.

     Thanks Ettore and 3DConnexion!