rxhanson / Multitouch-Community

Issue and feature request tracking for the Multitouch app
https://multitouch.app
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This app need gestures. Like BTT. E.g. Swipe left with 2 fingers while hold CMD => move window left. #115

Open purpleglow opened 2 years ago

purpleglow commented 2 years ago

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

purpleglow commented 2 years ago

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

rxhanson commented 2 years ago

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.

purpleglow commented 2 years ago

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

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

earwin commented 1 year ago

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.