Customizable Multi-touch Gestures File Found in OS X Leopard
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
A recent discovery in OS X Leopard’s system files sheds some light on Apple’s intentions on letting users customize their own four-finger swipe gestures. While their has been talks on software updates allowing users of older machines to get enabled gestures, customizing your own has never before been an option.
MyAppleGuide originally found the file (though we first saw it over at MacRumors), which we opened up in Interface Builder to snap the screenshot below.
While none of ...
MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
Macworld —
... You find such interesting things when you dig through the dark recesses of your file structure: hopes, dreams, ancient artifacts of great power, and even the occasional piece of unimplemented software. A blogger over at MyAppleGuide discovered, secreted away in OS X’s Trackpad pane, an interface that would allow users of multitouch-capable trackpads—such as those on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros—to define their own four-finger gestures. The file’s a .nib, which just means that it’s simply the interface part of the equation—there’s no code hooked up to it. But I’ve ...
MacBooks could see custom four-finger gestures
MacUser —
... You find such interesting things when you dig through the dark recesses of your file structure: hopes, dreams, ancient artifacts of great power, and even the occasional piece of unimplemented software. A blogger over at MyAppleGuide discovered, secreted away in OS X’s Trackpad pane, an interface that would allow users of multitouch-capable trackpads—such as those on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros—to define their own four-finger gestures. The file’s a .nib, which just means that it’s simply the interface part of the equation—there’s no code hooked up to it. But I’ve ...
4-finger gestures coming to Snow Leopard
CrunchGear —
... MyAppleGuide found a help screen in Snow Leopard that shows that 4-finger gestures - try it on your trackpad and you’ll see that they’re a little awkward - are coming soon. Not a huge deal, but pretty cool for those with large glass trackpads. ...
Unused trackpad pref hints at more customizable gestures
Infinite Loop —
... One of the niftiest features of Apple's recent notebooks has to be the multitouch trackpad, as it lets you do a lot more before you have to break out the right-click "button" or the mouse thumb. Still, the gestures don't offer many customization options other than turning them on or off, but according to MyAppleGuide, an unused preference pane suggests that more gesture customization may be coming to Mac OS X in the future. ...

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