Mouse button debouncing

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 19 August 2013, g sent:
> you all need to do what i did years ago.
> 
> i bought a thumb type logitech trackman marble and i have enjoy the
> critter and cursoring ever sense then.
> 
> beauty of it is it sits where i put it, and i do not have to keep a
> place cleared to move it around in. 

I have tried them in the past, and they did seem like a good idea.
However, I never managed any comfortable ways to:

Select several objects.  With a mouse, you'd click and drag a box
around.  You do that using finger button pressing and wrist movement to
define the box.  With a trackball, you have to do a contortionist dance
with all your fingers.

Likewise with dragging something (e.g. move an file from one place to
another, reposition an object within a page, etc.).

Drawing is a damn near impossibility, such as trying to draw a basic
thing in GIMP, or fiddle with a pre-existing image.

Trackpads are even worse.  Evil things, they are.

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