[Koshkin]

Interestingly enough, there has been an opposite trend, in software engineering, to have the user rely on the mouse for pretty much everything except typing text. One curious example is Plan 9's text editor called Acme, where to perform certain actions you even have to click more than one mouse button simultaneously, a.k.a.'chords'. (I am not sure how long an average mouse would be able to withstand this kind of abuse.)

[stephengillie]

I use a mouse with a 12-key thumb pad to move part of the keyboard onto the mouse. Under my thumb are these keys:

  F5   Up   F2
  Left Down Right
  Tab Delete Backspace
  Enter Space ESC

Using this, I can click any page or terminal window, and quickly navigate, while others are still finding their keyboard with their hand. This helps maintain the state of flow while enabling the random selective capability of a mouse.

[microcolonel]

I think I would sweat bullets if I knew there were an enter key on my mouse, but to each his own.

[kalleboo]

When I'm web browsing, I never take my hand off the trackpad. I have a suite of custom gestures set up for tab management etc that mean that most of the time I'm not even moving the cursor.