Bug 73434

Summary:	mouse-button-only gestures, e.g. hold right, click left for back in Konqueror
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aneurin.price, heinrich.wendel, jvroutak, l.lunak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description S. Burmeister 2004-01-24 22:52:49 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

Opera supports it perfectly and Mozilla badly, using just the mouse-buttons without any movement of the mouse itself as a gesture, e.g. hold right button, click left to go back one page in konqueror. These kind of gestures are quicker and more robust than having to move the mouse.

It would also enable gestures lik, increasing the volume with the mouse by for example holding down the right button and using the scrollwheel.

If this is implemented PLEASE do not do it the way mozilla did. That way, if you wanted to go back three steps you would have to hold right, click left, release both, hold right, click left, release both, hold right, click left, release both, whereas in Opera all you need to do is hold right and click left three times without releasing right, which is the only proper way for this type of gesture.

Comment 1 Gary 2004-03-26 20:27:56 UTC

Please implement this feature, it is so useful decribed by the original poster. It can be used in many applications. Thanks

Comment 2 S. Burmeister 2004-08-02 21:14:32 UTC

Still true for 3.3 beta2

Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2004-08-27 20:28:18 UTC

Absolutely no way to implement this properly in KHotKeys, this can be done only in the app. I fail to see how this is better than pressing mouse button and moving it a bit to the side though.

Comment 4 Niels 2004-08-27 21:49:09 UTC

I agree that this sounds very useful. Maybe not to you Lubos, but then to others.

I tried getting RMB+Wheel to change tabs in another wish, like Opera does. But whoever took care of that didn't do it completely like Opera.

Is KHotKeys somehow limited, or maybe Qt? It would be cool if the users could assign all kinds of silly things, like hold-right-button-triple-click-middle-button-wheel-down-and-up (which would obviously start a kernel compile).

Comment 5 S. Burmeister 2004-08-29 14:18:05 UTC

Hi!

Am Freitag, 27. August 2004 20:28 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> Absolutely no way to implement this properly in KHotKeys, this can be done
> only in the app. I fail to see how this is better than pressing mouse
> button and moving it a bit to the side though.

Imagine you want to go back 5 steps. At the moment you click - move, click - 
move, click -move, click - move, click -move.
In Opera's style (try it out), you just do click (hold), click, click, click, 
click, click.

Holding right, clicking left is back, the other way around forward.

Assuming that clicking is ten times faster than moving, you save a lot of time 
and movement, especially on a touchpad!

Sven

Comment 6 Lubos Lunak 2005-01-17 09:41:57 UTC

*** Bug 97134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 S. Burmeister 2005-01-17 10:11:34 UTC

Still not implemented in 3.4 beta1.

Comment 8 Thiago Macieira 2005-01-17 11:05:08 UTC

That's why it's an *open* wishlist. If it had been implemented, it would have been closed :-)

Comment 9 Manuel Braun 2005-05-15 20:27:21 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 10 Heinrich Wendel 2005-07-08 00:02:46 UTC

*** Bug 77522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Azri 2006-02-26 11:56:57 UTC

Cool. Will this be implemented in the nxt KDE release?

Comment 12 Thiago Macieira 2006-02-28 19:48:40 UTC

Not necessarily.

Comment 13 Mait 2006-07-18 09:59:49 UTC

I'm new to KDE with Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper.

KDE is awesome. Konq too. But I really missing rocker gesture in Firefox(All-in-One mouse extension).

Comment 14 Maruschenko Dmitry 2007-05-21 15:40:48 UTC

And what about implementing this in  KDE4? =)