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This app need gestures. Like BTT. E.g. Swipe left with 2 fingers while hold CMD => move window left.

Open purpleglow opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

There are no gestures and the proposed "gestures" like holding one finger and taping the other are unnatural and impractical.

purpleglow avatar Jun 02 '22 05:06 purpleglow

For reference, these are actual gestures https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895

purpleglow avatar Jun 02 '22 05:06 purpleglow

Thanks for the feedback. Gestures that mimic Apple's built-in gestures are really hard to get right because users already have a sense for what they should feel like. In my opinion, a lot of BTT's gestures just don't feel as nice as Apple's (or Multitouch's for that matter). Reimplementing these gestures would also require preventing built-in gestures from firing, and while BTT does this, Multitouch does not because I've found that there is a lot less quirks with the touch API this way. Adding these in and getting them right is a nontrivial effort, and something I would consider doing only if there were truly significant desire for it.

rxhanson avatar Jun 02 '22 14:06 rxhanson

My pleasure. Yes, use Apple's gestures because they work and users love them. Examples:

  • cmd + 2 finger swipe right = move window to the right
  • cmd + 2 fingers swipe left = move window left
  • cmd + 2 fingers swipe up = maximize

That's the only reason I use BTT and I would love to switch to a better-designed app like Multitouch. Thanks for considering.

purpleglow avatar Jun 03 '22 09:06 purpleglow

I extensively use two-finger swipes in BTT to add back/forward navigation to all the apps lacking it natively, e.g.: Spotify, Dash, Finder, Path Finder, qutebrowser, all the assorted IDEs and editors.

This way I have the same gesture doing same thing across my whole system. It's not absolutely smooth everywhere (I'm looking at you, qutebrowser), but beats remembering variations across apps.

earwin avatar Feb 23 '23 10:02 earwin