10.6: Navigate Snow Leopard Stacks with gestures

Nov 16, '09 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: Andrew J Freyer

Navigable stacks in Snow Leopard are a very nice feature, but the lack of gesture recognition is frustrating. Using the free BetterTouchTool, though, navigable stacks are a reality. BetterTouchTool is forked from the ">MultiClutch source. BetterTouchTool is essentially the same as MultiClutch, but it runs without a reliance on InputManagers. As a result, it works great in Snow Leopard, on 64- and 32-bit apps, and on Carbon apps (read: iTunes).

For Global Gestures, I have set the bindings:

In Finder, these navigate folder hierarchies more naturally. They allow me to move up and down folder hierarchies without relying on a history. This breaks the native behavior of forward-back navigation history, but for me, this method makes more sense.

Old Behavior: Back and Forward in History
New Behavior: Parent and Child Directory

The fringe benefit is that this also works in Snow Leopard's navigable stacks, as I feel it should have from the beginning. Click into a folder, a new stack window appears, and swipe left takes you to the parent folder.

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