OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 30th Jan 2008 09:49 UTC

"My first brush with mouse gestures on the Opera browser was an accident, but the ability to quickly move backward or forward in the browser history, open new windows, close tabs, and more without using the menus or moving the mouse toward the navigation toolbar won me over immediately. Nowadays, this feature is available in Firefox and Konqueror too, and you can even configure mouse gestures for GNOME and KDE desktop environments." More here.

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RE: I don't see the point

by dagw on Wed 30th Jan 2008 16:35 UTC in reply to "I don't see the point"

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I never really saw the point of mouse gestures. The whole point for me is to minimize the use of the mouse as much as possible, not use it for more and more things.

There are however a whole class of apps where you have to use the mouse the whole time anyway. Adding mouse gestures to these kinds of apps might be interesting.

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