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Idea #985: Mouse Gestures



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Written by adjohnson916 the 29 Feb 08 at 05:46. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Description
It would be nice to see Ubuntu integrate global mouse gestures. Of course these would be optional and configurable, but in my opinion mouse gestures greatly improve productivity, and Ubuntu could pioneer their implementation in an out-of-the-box OS, putting it that much further ahead of Windows and Mac.
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This is being worked on by the accessibility team.


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spec Blueprint mouse-tweaks: Ubuntu


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rsepulvedacl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:36
A bit of help: http://www.linux.com/feature/125257

Auzy wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 01:32
This is why people should be voting based on how creditable an idea is. Not if its a priority..

leo_rockway wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 10:20
KDE already has this.

alvevind wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 22:29
Mobile devices with touch screen gestures comming up strong in the years ahead. I guess the devs already are looking into gestures on the mobile version of Ubuntu, or at least they should be.

Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 23:24
Mouse gestures scare me.

ganglion wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 22:14
With Gestikk it works not as good as in Opera. First, when I perform a rightclick the "right click menu" appears, it should only appear if I perform a right click and release the button without moving. Secondly, the gestures aren't recognized as good as by Opera and need to be performed much slower. If you could make it as good as in Opera, it would be genious.

Btw., to everyone who doesn't use those gestures and says that this not needed or too complicated, please test it with Opera. It is really helpful, but of course you need some hours to get comfortable with it.

Unifier wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 03:14
It'd be awesome if you guys can get it to function as well as a Window-only program called StrokeIt (http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/). It hasn't had an update in years, but I loved using it so much when I was using Windows! You could "train" the program so it'd consistently recognize the most complex of gestures, and you could set it to automatically turn itself off for selected applications. As said by adjohnson916, this would give Ubuntu a nice edge in user-interface against the competition. Think of the possibilities of this combined with Compiz Fusion!

francois wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 12:40
+1 ganglion

fredreichbier wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 11:39
ganglion: You're right, gestikk is not perfect ;-) But in the upcoming release 0.5 I think much is better as in 0.4, e.g. we improved the gesture recognition algorithm. Maybe you want to try a bazaar snapshot from http://gestikk.reichbier.de/downloads/snapshots/ - IMHO revision 47 is stable enough for testing ;-)


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