{"id":481,"date":"2005-10-04T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2005-10-04T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T04:22:19","slug":"mouse-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/mouse-gestures\/","title":{"rendered":"mouse gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once thought mouse gestures were weird and crackful. A good way to hide away functionality and make things difficult.<\/p>\n

Well… I’ve started using them. Currently I’m using Epiphany as my web broswer (although there’s enough nice firefox things out there that I may switch at some point… if i can get my saved passwords across). The mouse gestures here (naturally) use a different bloody button than the package I’m using on firefox (right button is more logical as laptops generally only have two. or one).<\/p>\n

But talk about useful and fast. even just back and forward. maybe integrating this with a pop-up display of what actions you can do (for learning them) would really seal the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once thought mouse gestures were weird and crackful. A good way to hide away functionality and make things difficult. Well… I’ve started using them. Currently I’m using Epiphany as my web broswer (although there’s enough nice firefox things out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":164,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/the-one-button-mouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":0},"title":"the one button mouse","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-09-24","format":false,"excerpt":"If anybody wants the prime example of why Apple chose to have one button on their mice, go be a beginner user of xfig. 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