https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488258
Bug ID: 488258
Summary: Horizontal touch scroll doesn't work, makes navigating
files on small screens impractical
Classification: Applications
Product: kate
Version: 23.08.4
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: e...@horse64.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 170293
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=170293&action=edit
Screenshot showing a touch environment where horizontal scroll is heavily
required
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SUMMARY
I tested kate on a smaller screen today and ran into an issue that seems to
basically make it unusable in practice, even though it would be an easy fix:
when dragging vertically I can navigate up and down, but left and right to see
the end of the lines doesn't work, even though that is the default on all
mainstream touch devices. Instead I have to use the scrollbar on the bottom,
but when my finger is on that one I can't vertically scroll anymore, which
makes it impossible to efficiently navigate a larger file. This is sadly
required for any sort of notable code work to get an overview of what I'm even
doing. A screenshot of what I'm seeing is attached!
It seems like horizontal touch selects text instead. This seems however not an
action that is intensely required often in a complex program, or not as often
as simply reading the file (which requires horizontal touch). It's also not
what horizontal touch usually does on any other touch device. Therefore this
seems like a wrongly assigned action or mixup of sorts, or I'm not sure why it
is like that. Should it be changed?
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Make kate window relatively small
2. Disable word wrap (which at least in my tests seems to be somewhat required
to read code at a smaller size without being confused visually since then all
lines start to belnd into each other
3. Try to just read the file and just navigate around to get an overview
OBSERVED RESULT
Navigating the file is not really practical. Horizontal scroll isnt attached to
horizontal tap as expected.
EXPECTED RESULT
Horizontal touch triggers horizontal scroll. Long press triggers a selected
word instead with movable text markers and a floating separate menu button that
can expand the context menu. There doesn't seem to be a different touch text
edit paradigm that works well on all touch devices. My apologies if I
incorrectly configured this myself somehow without realizing!
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma: postmarketOS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:
KDE Frameworks Version:
Qt Version: 5.15.10
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