On the other hand, this makes it much easier to get a feel for the gesture, since you are not looking at anything, and your brain does not switch into the "this is drawing" state.Īt the end of the day, if you can stick with it for half an hour or so, the gestures start to happen rather naturally. For one thing, it is hard to see the gesture and that means that people who are first approaching mouse gestures will feel it is harder because you are practically working blind. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages so let's see what xGestures is all about.īecause of the way that mouse gestures are handled by xGestures, and because it offers no visual feedback, everything takes place backstage. The program I am looking at today is quite the opposite, in that it gives absolutely no visual feedback on the gesture. Some time ago I reviewed another mouse gesture program called FlyGesture that program had the advantage of great visual feedback, but the detail with which it could work with made it very hard to reproduce the same gesture. It would really be annoying, to say the least, and a key is so much less open to interpretation than a mouse gesture. This does little to help the concept at large, after all, imagine if the letter K on your keyboard sometimes typed a L or a J. Each implementation of the concept is different, and for each mouse gesture program you use, there are small differences that make or break the gesture. One of the big problems I have with mouse gestures is that there is no clear standard. I, am one of those people, ever since I had first heard about mouse gestures I have seen their potential, but, to this date, I have yet to see them used as an integral part of my computing experience. Many of those keyboard people had a hard time adjusting to the mouse, and much in the same way, many people are still less than 100% sold on mouse gesture, to say the least. It's not that far fetched, after all, back in the day, many people used only keyboards as the mouse was not really necessary, nor actually supported by many applications. Mice are an integral part of the computer experience these days, and perhaps, one day, mice gestures will be too.
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