Activating Kando with a Trackpad Gesture

[ognistik]

Description

I think it would be great if we could enter Kando's turbo mode directly with a single trackpad gesture. I'm just discovering this app, but I find it superior to Charmstone (which I was using until now) in almost every way. Charmstone has some neat trackpad gestures to activate its menu around the cursor, though, like resting three fingers -> removing all except one, and then moving without lifting - as soon as you lift that last finger, you make your selection. I'd love a see similar intuitive gesture implemented in Kando.

Affected Desktop Environments

macOS

Additional Information

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[Schneegans]

Yeah, this would be super cool. However, this will be most likely impossible to implement in a cross-platform manner. It seems to be possible on macOS, but I do not know whether Windows would support something like this. On Linux, it will be compositor-dependent but will require most likely admin permissions.

So maybe this would be a macOS-only feature? Are there any third-party apps which we could use on macOS to mimic this behavior? Like a gesture detection app which can open Kando once a gesture is detected?

[ognistik]

I've been trying to do this with BetterTouchTool which can trigger my Kando keyboard shortcut with a gesture, it's just far from being as smooth or fluid as I think it could be—mostly because it seems BetterTouchTool trackpad actions don't seem to go well with key down/key up (so the new Turbo mode doesn't work, basically).

Just throwing this out there, I hope it can be considered. I still find what you've done with this app is fantastic and looking forward to seeing where this project goes.