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
<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 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.
