From kde-devel Thu May 24 18:08:13 2001 From: Rolf Magnus Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:08:13 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KGesture and DCOP Interfaces X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99073051305531 On Thursday 24 May 2001 19:42, Mike Pilone wrote: > Hello All, > > I wrote KGesture the other day. It is a gesture recognition application > for KDE. As far as I know, it is the first of its kind and offers > something MS doesn't. Cool. I saw this first in Mentor Graphics, a program for electronic circuit and microchip design (called mouse strokes there). I always liked the idea of some easy gestures. But I think this would better integrate into KAction. The best would be a dialog where users can assign gestures to actions. How does the user specify that he wants to draw a gesture? In Mentor, one needed to press and hold a mouse button while drawing. > Problem 2: > ---------- > Currently users must use the 'dcop' command to find the method they want > to trigger. Is there a DCOP browser out there, or a widget that builds a > tree from DCOP information? There is kdcop, which is exactly what you are looking for. > It started as a little adventure in stroke recognition, but people seem to > like it, and it is a new approach to computer interaction (at least on the > desktop with a mouse! CAD apps have been doing it with a pen forever). It seems to be coming up more and more. The latest version of Opera has support for some simple gestures and in the game "Black & White", they are used, too. -- Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<