One 1/2 One (Again) Fewer Petty Pet Peeve

Yeh, I couldn’t resist the alliteration.

Well, I marked one of my two gripes about Opera 11 off my list. Turning off the “Visual Mouse Gestures” helper thing. *gah* What a waste. Apparently intended to “help” those users who should live in an Assisted Computing Facility (“Here. dearie; let me make that mouse gesture for you… “), it was nothing but an annoyance to me.

So, I finally stopped griping about it and intermittently looking for a place to switch it off in Preferences, which has only a subset of Opera configuration options, and searched for a solution. Of course, what I found only pointed me to where I ought to have been looking all along, though it pointed inaccurately.

The tipster pointed to opera:config, but mistakenly suggested disabling “Show Gesture UI”, which doesn’t exist, instead of “Show Gesture inf”. Unticking the checkbox by “Show Gesture inf” did the trick.

Update: only sorta kinda halfway. If I pause in mid-gesture for whatever reason, the thing does still show up… in the latest beta. Irritating. Works fine in the first beta. Have to put this 1/2 back on my “petty pet peeves” list.

Update-Update: Two betas later (three in one week), and this peeve is dead, dead, dead, I am happy to report. Now, just watching out for regressions in the future. *heh*

I really ought to have looked there sooner, as I have long used opera:config for other minor tweaks, but hey, lazy, forgetful? Early Olde Tymers’ Disease?

“Fewer” not “Less”? Use “fewer” for things that are/can be counted; “less” for things that are/can be measured. I suppose one could measure my peeves, but I wasn’t talking about the relative sizes of my peeves but a reduction in number. 🙂

And yes, using “less” when “fewer” is better is another of my peeves, but one not so petty, IMO.