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[Exponent]

Exponent: I suppose our gaming styles differ there. Switching between devices is something I find rather annoying and try to avoid. But that is a personal difference, I suppose, so there is little point in the two of us arguing about this - especially since I have no interest in a mouse interface for DF.

Well, my point, which I probably didn't make very well, was that with a well designed keyboard/mouse interface, you don't need to switch between the two devices.  You use them at the same time:  one hand on the mouse at almost all times (except when typing actual words, usually), and one hand on the keyboard.  They can compliment each other very nicely.  But since this is tangential anyway, I'll just leave it at that.

[Tormy]

Tormy: I think you misunderstood my intent. I did not mean to say that mouse support was automatically inferior. Actually, I wanted to stress that proper mouse support can be a very good interface for this game as well (even though personally I would still prefer using the keyboard controls). The context-menu driven approach you described would be one way of a mouse control implementation I think would be a good solution.

Oh sorry in that case. 
Yes indeed, proper mouse driven interface is just plain awesome, easy to use and user friendly.

[Deon]

But the keyboard is something that makes us sooo hardcore . It resembles old sci-fi movies where any device had an AWFUL interface with countless buttons and it was AWESOME for us kids .

[Footkerchief]

I only recently tried using the mouse for designations and was blown away.  It lets you do cool stuff like really "organic" (i.e. curved) excavations and exploratory shafts (still possible with the keyboard, but takes forever).  It's a great COMPLEMENT to the keyboard controls, not a replacement for it.

[Noble Digger]

Since tiles = pixels you can also create nice rooms by copying a DF tile pixel-for-pixel as mining designation. Different in-game tiles have different levels of light\dark if you want to get the shading from some of the advanced tilesets like redjack and guybrush's.