mouse gestures
as kyb has pointed out recently, anyone who has learned to love firefox mouse gestures will miss gesture support in all other applications. at work, i probably spend about 80% of my time with eclipse, and about 5% each with firefox, thunderbird, aterm, and open office. launching the eclipse context menu when accidentially doing the back gesture was thus a very frequent annoyance.
if you are a windows user, just follow kyb's suggestion and try strokeit to get system-wide mouse gesture support.
on linux/kde, i managed to get khotkeys do the job. you can configure it through kcontrol (as of KDE 3.2), via KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Input Actions.
there are a lot of example actions set up, so it was a walk in the park to get my eclipse-specific ones running. i created a new "eclipse" group and added simple Gesture -> Keyboard Input actions. the gestures can then be drawn/recorded, and only need to be mapped to the corresponding keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Alt+Left for back navigation, Alt+Right for forward navigation, and Ctrl+W for close).
