http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/ This is the blog of Jean-Baptiste Kempf. I will share some info about my life, my works and my VideoLAN work en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:49:19 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2007/03/26/GUI-ergonomics-and-gestures urn:md5:4a7c0aab7667031e372b5e604a94e5a4 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:14:00 +0200 Jean-Baptiste Kempf VideoLAN ergonomicsQt4 GUIVLC media player <h3>Ergonomics</h3> <p>Working on VLC media player interface, I found that clicking on menus and buttons was really un-natural. Lots of people have already said that, of course.</p> <p>That is why I gave a look at VLC media player Mouse Gestures.</p> <h3>Mouse Gestures</h3> <p>Most of the important code was already written by Dnumgis, but not the <q>functional part</q>. There was four gestures and I re-mapped them to have new actions.</p> <h4>Number of actions:</h4> <p>To ease the use of those gestures, I had decided to use only one-movements and two-movements actions, since three-movements are difficult for some people. And I decided to remove all double-movement (left-left, right-right, etc..) for the same timing reason.</p> <p>So I had space for 4 x 5 - 4 = 16 actions.</p> <h4>New mapping:</h4> <p>You will find the new bindings on our <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Mouse_Gestures" hreflang="en">wiki</a>.</p>