Mouse Gestures Gain Followers

StefMeister writes "According to this article at ZDNet, the use of the mouse using 'mouse gestures' (as introduced in Opera) is gaining a lot of followers. Personally, I almost solely use the keyboard as input device, but it might be interesting for others. Although changing the way people are accustomed to working is always tricky." I certainly enjoy gestures in Mozilla, thanks to OptiMoz.

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And with my track ball?

[mesocyclone]

So how is this going to work with my track ball?

Mice are for people with more than 10 cm^2 of desk space :-)

Re:And with my track ball?

[Ducky]

Actually, I could comfortably use gestures with an IBM Thinkpad's pencil eraser nub for a pointing device. Well, "comfortably" might be too positive a word... perhaps "without the desire to go gouge my eyes out," was was the case when trying to play quake with the infernal thing.

-Ducky

Re:And with my track ball?

[zulux]

gestures with an IBM Thinkpad's pencil eraser nub

My girfried has benifited from all the training I've gotten with my Thinkpad.

Thanks IBM!

(Now if only I could get her to use the Thrustmaster correctly...)

Re:And with my track ball?

[crapulent]

My girfried has benifited from all the training I've gotten with my Thinkpad

Now if only IBM had given it a more creative name...like Compact Laptop Interface Tool.

Re:And with my track ball?

[zulux]

IBM is also famous for their "Mouse Ball" feild note:

here

..a sample of the note:
Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive, however, excessive handling can result in sudden discharge. Upon completion of ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately.

It is recommended that each servicer have a pair of balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction,and that any customer missing his balls should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary functional items.

Mostly good.

[Raskolnk]

I thought this sounded like some nifty gee-whiz crappy feature when I first heard about it, but after trying it in Opera I was quite impressed. It quickly became a normal browsing habit.

The only problem was that on occasion I would accidently make the gesture for "close window" and my pages would magically disappear.

It'd be ultra-nifty if there was a mouse gesture training app, so I could map commands to custom gestures. Then I could bind the movement made when I throw my mouse at my monitor to Ctrl-Alt-Del.

New Gesture Ideas

[SmlFreshwaterBuffalo]

I think they should implement gestures similar to those in Black & White.

Drawing out something resembling an ancient religious symbol to go back a page would be interesting. I've been looking for a way to push my carpal-tunnel to its limits.

gestures in XP

[cybermace5]

I don't think my computer wants to know what gestures I make at it when Windows XP curls up and dies. The good thing is that it reboots into Linux by default, so....

Combine this with one of those infrared finger mice, and you can feel like a Jedi: "This isn't the page you're looking for, go back." *waves hand to the left*

Explorer Supprts Gestures!

[zulux]

I give it gesture every day...

Re:Mouse gestures were not "introduced in opera"

[Ooblek]

I first used them in Black & White. Does that count?

I mean, there has to be a population of people that were introduced to using gestures by trying to get their animals to stop eating their own shit, throw fireballs at enemies, and make rain clouds appear.

So does this mean that I can make a gesture and all my coding work will be complete? Damn, that would be nice.