Why I Am No Longer Using Mouse Gestures
I have been a long time PC user (mostly because the vast majority of web users are on PCs) and have been in love with mouse gestures since first seeing them on a Linux machine. When the FireFox extension came out I immediately began to use them and life was great. Well, recently I switched to a mac (now that PC emulation is trivial) and of course I installed mouse gestures.
Unfortunately, the standard mac mouse only has 1 button, but you can use OSX to simulate a 2-button mouse. However, it isn’t very accurate and it is very easy to left-click when you mean right and right-click when you mean left. It also turns out that it’s easy to right-click, followed by a quick left-click, which I use as a shortcut for clicking the back button in the browser.
Where am I getting with this? Well, after spending 2 hours writing up a real post for today, I went to publish it and instead of left clicking, my mouse triggered the back button shortcut. And well, the rest is history… there went my blog entry.
What have I learned? Mouse gestures are not worth it on the mac and from now I will be writing my posts in a word processor before posting.
I don’t like mouse gestures also.
But I like to use keyboard or joystick to control the computer.
For example, I can go back when I press the L1 while holding R1 on my joystick. At least I use it as a mouse.
When I write long blog posts, I always save my blog post every two or three words or so and then I publish it. It’s easy because my blog is text file based.
And the previous post about the lazy function definition really works! I used to use it a lot also.
Comment by the DtTvB — October 11, 2007 @ 1:42 am