SkyOS Mouse gestures

Sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Wed Sep 14 23:22:55 PDT 2005


On Wed, September 14, 2005 7:03 pm, Alex Deucher said:
> On 9/14/05, Leen Toelen <toelen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I don't know who is following osnews or SkyOS over here, but this
>> seems an interesting feature of SkyOS: (from their website:
>> http://www.skyos.org)
>>
>> Support for mouse gesture recognition has been implemented. By using
>> the System Manager "Gesture" plugin you can add, remove and configure
>> your own mouse gestures. Whenever SkyOS recognizes a conigured mouse
>> gesture, the desired action is performed. You can select from many
>> pre-configured actions like: Maximize/Minimize window, close
>> application, launch application, ...
>>
>> The entire gesture recognition is fully intergrated into SkyOS/SkyGI
>> as a service application which can easily be enabled/disabled with the
>> System Manager "Services" plugin.
>
> FWIW, there used to be a plugin for mozilla to do this.
>

Yes, Firefox has this as well.  But it would be great to get this support
at a lower level so that it could be delivered transparently to all
applications.

Cheers,
Sean





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