Mouse Gestures Gain Followers

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Mouse Gestures Gain Followers

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 2, 2002 @05:22AM from the user-interface-decisions dept.

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? by mesocyclone · 2002-10-02 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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1. Re:And with my track ball? by zulux · 2002-10-02 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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...)
  
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2. Re:And with my track ball? by crapulent · 2002-10-02 06:06 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
3. Re:And with my track ball? by zulux · 2002-10-02 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
  
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Mostly good. by Raskolnk · 2002-10-02 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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gestures in XP by cybermace5 · 2002-10-02 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

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*

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