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Mouse Gestures Gain Followers

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. The mouse-wheel by garoush · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After the buttons on a mouse, I find the mouse-wheel to be the most attractive and useful feature. Just think how much you save yourself by using the wheel to scroll up/down in your application and keep the arrow focused on the screen not to mention, using one finger.

    You can take away all mouse-gestures and I won't complain, but I will get mad as hell if you give me a mouse without a wheel.

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  2. Black and white??? Bluck by victim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So your playing B&W, you are half way through a gesture to create water on your poor people and the game decides to autosave, freezing input in the middle of the gesture. So you try to recover and complete the gesture or at least make it do something sane, but no. You get a fireball or something and incinerate your people. Bad god. Maybe the PC version of BW is better, but the Mac version could inspire one to injure the programmers.

    Galeon on the other hand has nice gesture support.