Have you seen the Amulet GUI system? They have a gesture recognition
library in it that is really cool. It can be trained to recognize X's,
O's, and scribbles... It got me thinking.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/www/amulet-home.html
Wouldn't it be neato if you could circle an icon and point to a spot on
the virtual desktop inside the pager, and have the icon go there?
Or make an X over a window to close it? (in the FvwmPager)
Or if you could point at the spot you want a window to land, and have
it start there? Hmmm... move the mouse into the pager, press a prefix
key, click a spot on the map, then launch a program in the usual way.
(via menu, xterm, or button.) The program lands with it's upper left on
the spot you clicked.
Linux People: Why not take the Amulet gesture lib and make it a .so for
many apps to use? If it's not done by the time I know how, I'll do it.
:) Could make a good part of OffiX's DND thingy ?
TkDesk does something like it. If you set an option, new windows open
at the cursor location. It's ok as long as you aren't using FvwmAuto,
and move off the new window and have it buried under a larger window.
Idea: FvwmAuto: Holding down a key will reverse it, so it sinks the
window to the back instead of raising it to the top. So it's autoraise
most of the time, but I hold down ScrollLock and it sinks windows.
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Received on Fri Sep 13 1996 - 05:03:04 BST