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I've been using this for years in Windows... the application is called Sensiva, and can be found here: http://www.sensiva.com

It's very usefull, I just draw a V to launch VB, or a W to launch Word, and so on :)

~Andrea

I used Sensiva for a while, and it worked well with the graphics tablet I have. But I found since upgrading my system and being able to have both mouse and tablet plugged in at the same time it is just as easy to swap to the mouse to do things that I could do with a gesture. It was good for things like back and forward in browsers, and you could customize it do more elaborate things which was somewhat useful.

You could take a look at Sensiva. It has been around for years, and could even record actions as a macro and assign it to a custom gesture.

Sensiva does all that. You can program the gestures to input text. Nothing is cooler than having multiple term windows open, and cleanly logging out with just a slash.

Sensiva . It has a linux port (what more could you ask) but it is trainable. While the newest versions cost money, the earlier versions like 1.07 are free and have all the functionality. You can prolly find some of them roaming around the internet still.

I didn't think that gestures was all that great when they first came out. But after getting used to using them for web browsing, I wanted more for every application. Since then I've used Sensiva, and even tho I only use a few like minimize and new, I find that I am now handicapped when I use machines that don't have mouse gestures. Its so slow and cumbersome. Don't get me wrong, the keyboard is great for a lot of things, but I still find myself using the mouse, and a lot of the gestures can be done without moving my hands back and forth.

You may use another version of IE than me, but the one I have 6.0 something is in comparison to opera Slow. And it doesn't even allow me to disable pop up.

There are many pop-up blockers for IE out there, including mine, NoPopIE.

Talking of smooth with a small mouse gesture I can duplicate window. far easier than crtl-N or clicking somewhere.

You could always use Sensiva, and get system-wide mouse gestures rather than just gesturing for a single application.

But maybe with smooth you mean something else ?

Well, I'm pretty sure he was using smooth in comparison to Mozilla (clunky and ugly, even the latest versions), or other Gecko-based browsers. Opera has always been fast, no argument there. Then again, he could have been referring to rendering speed. Just from personal usage (and probably somewhat of a personal bias), IE seems to render the quickest for me, and barring idiots like the slashdot page-widening trolls, usually looks good too.

There used to be a shareware program called Sensiva that added gesture support to all windows programs, even allowing you to customize your own gestures. However, new Sensiva products seem to have become more and more bloated with all sorts of irrelevant features and are a lot more restrictive than the older versions :(

Sensiva is a nice tool for mouse gesturing, prety efficient too.

Esp. useful for keyboard-repellant people =)

Now in a closed system, such as a game, drawing program, etc., mouse usage is much more important. But for general use, gesture-based input will only work at the expense of speed.

* I found that it works well for simple symbols. More complicated glyphs, such as figure eights, and symbols with crossover lines, were hopeless, no matter what size or speed I tried them.
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Gestures, like symbols, are universal! It's one of the best ways to rembember something, like when you write down on paper a phone number you want to remember, or road signs that are pretty much the same across all countries. Opera's gestures work only within Opera... Instead there's a piece of software called Sensiva that provides gesture commands on ALL applications and customizable at will. I use it everyday without even thinking about it, so I guess they've built a truly intuitive interface. I'm sure this could help making Linux more accessible to the consumer.

A same sort of program but not limited to browsers is Sensiva. You can define a set of commands for each application. It works pretty good but on my win2k machine it crashed after a couple of days...

Just bought a Wacom Graphire pen tablet yesterday
(4x5in active area). It comes with a program called Sensiva
(windows) that does just this, it works with windows in
general and has plugins to customize with new gestures for
different apps.

I've been using a bit of software from Sensiva to do this with my tablet for a while - and it works across any application not just the web.

They seem to have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux.

I missed having the thumb button on my mouse which was set to back until i found this.

Well, for those of us on Windows (don't kill me), there's Sensiva. Designed for a mouse, but works great with a Wacom tablet, too.