Am 11. April 2017 11:23:01 MESZ schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <ad...@leinir.dk>: >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 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. >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