Cocoa Gestures - 1.2

Cocoa Gestures adds mouse gestures to any Cocoa program such as Mail, Address Book, iCal, TextEdit, Safari, Chimera, OmniWeb, Path Finder, Stone Desgin's great suite of applications like Create, and many others. Please note: It only works for Cocoa applications. It will NOT work with carbon-based applications such as the Finder, InternetExplorer and Office for OS X. At least for the first two there are good replacements written in Cocoa: Instead of Finder you can use Path Finder, and instead of InternetExplorer you can use Safari, Chimera or OmniWeb.

What are gestures?
Gestures allow you to execute functions in a program by clicking a mouse button (optionally with a modifier key pressed) and move the mouse in a certain pattern, for instance down to open a file. The gestures are represented by a combination of up, down, left and right motions. The gesture decoding engine is quite forgiving. For instance a gesture left - down - right - up - left can be achieved by 'drawing' an uppercase G. This allows for gestures that are easily memorized. Gestures are actually much more intuitive than it may sound.

It is unclear where the notion of gestures first appeared. Most sources mention them in combination with experimental pie menu implementation in the 1970s. Lately they have been found in the web browsers Opera and Mozilla.