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Fairly simple new Dock feature.

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Galaxas0

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Instead of control clicking a dock item to show context and expose menus, you can now two finger swipe when mouse hovering on the dock icon. Nifty much?
 
Neat :) This is a great example of one of the little "elegant" touches that I adore about OS X. I'm really looking forward to the increase of gesture-based input with 10.7.
 
Galaxas0 said:
Instead of control clicking a dock item to show context and expose menus, you can now two finger swipe when mouse hovering on the dock icon. Nifty much?
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This is yet another hint that iOS is going touch based! You only have to swipe one finger up. It would feel natural to do this on a touchscreen!

It also works when opening folders on the dock.
 
HEB said:
I'm pretty sure he meant to say OS X ^_^
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In this case, it’s already there with the gestures support. If they ever plan to introduce the touch-screen iMacs/MBP (not likely after Steve Jobs already mentioned that it is hard to touch the screen all day), the screen can just be a giant trackpad.

It’s much more feasible to use the trackpad as the primarily method of interacting with your OS than to touch your screen all day long.
 
Galaxas0 said:
Instead of control clicking a dock item to show context and expose menus, you can now two finger swipe when mouse hovering on the dock icon. Nifty much?
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I'm pretty sure it's not that hard to discover in which direction to swipe those two fingers of yours as there are only 4 directions.

Nevertheless, I'll make new readers' discovery quest a bit easier by saying that it's "two-finger swipe-up".
 
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