Am 11. April 2017 13:13:11 MESZ schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <[email protected]>: >On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 11:32:18 BST Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> Am 11. April 2017 11:23:01 MESZ schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen ><[email protected]>: >> >Heyhey :) >> > >> >i do rather like the idea of edge gestures, however i would also >quite >> >like >> >to keep in mind applications here... >> >> we discussed the proposed implementation at the affenfels sprint. Why >did >> you not raise this concern there? > > i did mention it, but i realise my voice does not carry well. > >> I explicitly asked for the "go for it!" prior to spending time on >> implementing. Now coming up with additional requirements after the >> implementation is rather unfair. > > As you say, you have already worked on the implementation, and i must >confess to have not quite realised that (having been somewhat busy in >other >areas). I retract my statement - while having the corners included, it >is too >late to consider this now. Perhaps it might also, arguably, be too many > >options for something which is supposed to be a type of sloppy >interaction. At >any rate, departed trains and sailed boats and whatnot. > >Arguing against myself, too, I guess it would make sense to perhaps >have a >different set of gestures for when touch is a secondary input (touch >enabled >laptops and whatnot), and for touch-first devices (phones, tablets...). >It >would not be entirely out of step with what i have advocated with the >whole >Gemini thing for a while now, that one size does not fit all ;) >So, again, i retract my early morning comments, and quite entirely see >your >reason for being displeased with what i am sure will seem as a drive-by >info >drop (rather than the hopeful helpful comment it was intended to be, >and which >obviously, in hindsight, it does not exactly manage). > >Now, to try and be at least vaguely useful: Might i suggest that >running >applications full screen would be something of a special case, and that >in >such a case, the edge gestures might be expected to be different? >Specifically, >it might be expected that the top (or bottom) edge would somehow >function as >an escape function (say, present windows for example), while the >remaining >edges are given to the full screen application? >I mention this because, after using systems where this does not happen, >it >is quite annoying when such accidental activations happen. Again, this >is >only, specifically, for full screen applications, not for the general >case, >where the rest of the system is visible. > Hope that is an at least marginally useful comment on the topic.
I haven't tested it yet, but for mouse screen edges are reserved for fullscreen applications. As touch shares the screen edge code this should also be the case there. But as said: I haven't tested yet. > >> >Specifically, other touch-focused >> >UXes all >> >have some kind of concept of edges given over to the applications >> >rather than >> >the system. Windows has the bottom edge, Android has both sides, >Jolla >> >has the >> >top edge, and iOS has... both sides as well if i'm not too far >> >mistaken. >> >What i imagine we might do is to make it eight locations rather than >> >four, >> >to allow us to emulate various options (which i suspect would be >very >> >useful >> >for experimentation as well). That is, the four edges, and the four >> >corners. >> >The most important point i am trying to make here is, though, that >if >> >you >> >have a maximised application on screen, it seems to me that if we >are >> >aiming >> >for convergence, might it not make sense to have similar gestures as >> >the >> >default for all the form factors our software runs on? >> > >> >On Saturday, 8 April 2017 10:24:04 BST Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> >> Hi Plasmates, >> >> >> >> now that we have touch screen edge swipe gesture support both on >X11 >> > >> >and >> > >> >> Wayland we could define which actions to put on each edge. >> >> >> >> My suggestion would be to put a sensible action on each of the >four >> >> actions. >> >> >> >> Personal proposal: >> >> >> >> *Left Edge:* >> >> Window Switching as the default alt+tab theme is on the left side. >> > >> >Also >> > >> >> on Windows 10 this happens on the left edge. >> >> >> >> *Top Edge:* >> >> Present Windows as 4 finger swipe downwards on touchpad triggers >> > >> >present >> > >> >> windows. >> >> >> >> *Bottom Edge:* >> >> Desktop Grid as 4 finger swipe upwards on touchpad triggers >desktop >> >> grid. >> >> >> >> *Right Edge:* >> >> Application launcher >> >> >> >> >> >> What I dislike about the proposal is: Present Windows and Alt+Tab >are >> >> kind of redundant. Given that a better default edge would be nice >for >> >> top edge. KRunner would be a nice fit as it's also on top, but >it's >> >> rather useless on touch. >> >> >> >> The application launcher is rather disconnected in the default >setup >> > >> >if >> > >> >> we swipe in from left screen. What I personally would prefer if we >> > >> >could >> > >> >> trigger the application dashboard. Of course we still don't have >> > >> >working >> > >> >> touch support in the application launchers, so if we go for that >we >> > >> >need >> > >> >> fixing (same applies for alt+tab btw.). >> >> >> >> So please comment and propose your own ideas. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Martin
