[OSM-talk] OSM on "factory" Macs

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Apr 22 12:43:39 BST 2008


Hi,

    I'm using this post to address a number of things that others  
have said as well:

> Ubuntu Live CDs end to work on these. That would be one option.  
> Although Mac OSX works fine.

The Macs come from an Apple store who will have a certain interest in  
showing off their product. This means I will neither install Ubuntu,  
nor can I plug in a cheap el-ugly USB mouse.

Ok I'm now convinced that I can use the Macs.

Someone said that zooming in JOSM is a pain sometimes; I just want to  
point out that you can zoom in increments with Ctrl-, and Ctrl-.  
(comma and decimal point).

I am quite confused now about dragging the map. Many have said that  
using the mouse with JOSM on the Macs does not work very well. But  
then I am told you can use Ctrl "rightclick simulation" to do the  
dragging, and others again say that some applications would use the  
space bar a a modifier key. Why would they, if Ctrl is already built  
in? If somebody can tell me exactly how you would like JOSM to behave  
on a mousically challenged system then we could maybe fix that... my  
first shot would have been supporting a modifier key but obviously  
OSX does that already with Ctrl and it seems not to be what people want?

Maybe we should have that discussion over on josm-dev though.

Bye
Frederik

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