wait, there's a THREE fingered trackpad gesture? What? I'm so confused....
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meara - Jan 22, 2010 6:25:58 pm PST #12533 of 25501
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2010 6:30:08 pm PST #12534 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2010 6:41:34 pm PST #12535 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. I figured I'd train myself on the three-fingered one first. Plus the Command/Tab (and Alt/Tab in windows) method of changing apps is pretty well ingrained in my brain, so I don't know if I'd use the four-fingered swipe to change apps.
eta: Just did some experimenting and I've rethought my feelings on four-fingered swiping. Now it seems it's one of those things were if my fingers are already on the trackpad, it's easier to do the four-fingered swipe than move my fingers to the keyboard for a Command/Tab and then back to the trackpad. But if my fingers are on the keyboard, Command/Tab is faster.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2010 6:52:57 pm PST #12536 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't wait to get my Macbook Pro and try the more-than-two finger trackpadding. Just scrolling with two fingers is so damned handy. It's what I keep forgetting when I move to a PC laptop.
My work laptop has a scroll area on the right side of the laptop--is that a model-specific thing, or standard?
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2010 6:59:44 pm PST #12537 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What got me on to this was a realization how much time I was spending going to click on the "Back" browser button. I then remembered that Opera users could do mouse gestures for things like that, so I was wondering if Firefox had any Add-ons that did that. Then I remembered that the trackpad on my MacBook Pro had some features like that. So much like Dorothy, I discovered I had the solution to my dilemma with me all the time....
meara - Jan 22, 2010 7:03:17 pm PST #12538 of 25501
Whew! I just checked and my MacBook only does two fingers. I'm not missing out on anything (at least, THERE. I'm sure I'm missing out on tons of functionality that is awesomecakes that I just don't even realize I can do)
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2010 7:18:41 pm PST #12539 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's frustrating not to be able to use mouse gestures with a trackpad. I use gestures all the time when using Opera on the desktop. Never use the back button or the window close button.
-t - Jan 22, 2010 7:22:17 pm PST #12540 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aha! I've been doing those 3 & 4 finger gestures accidentally. Nifty tricks when they're on purpose.
Jessica - Jan 23, 2010 5:54:04 am PST #12541 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
three-fingered trackpad gesture to navigate through browser history.
Oh hey, look at that!
Tom Scola - Jan 23, 2010 5:59:03 am PST #12542 of 25501
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