GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94507
gestures should work everywhere on the page
Last modified: 2011-02-14 13:06:27 UTC
Gestures need to work over images and links as well as empty space. Otherwise you lose all the benefits of gestures on pages with a big / many pictures because you can't make the simple gesture until you first find some empty space (assuming there even is any) on the page. The gestures should always be usable from the current location of the mouse pointer. That's about the whole point of gestures; the point where you need move the mouse to access some functionality is right there, under the cursor.
This applies also to autoscroll I think
I will make them work over images, but not over links because it would confilct with other functions.
Since 'the other functions' consists only of handling clicking on the link, AFAIK, you can safely make the gestures work over links as well. Just emit another signal, 'clicked', if the mouse wasn't moved (enough?) during the time. I have modified my own checkout so that it's possible to: 1. middle-drag to scroll the page 2. urlpaste by middle-clicking 3. right-drag to perform gestures 4. right-click to popup context menu That's likely to be too much overloading of buttons for one person, but for me that's ok, I get most out of everything and the functions really don't conflict; dragging is quite different from clicking.
It's quite easy to drag instead of clicking and viceversa. I really don't think that your setup is sensible for common users ;) Maybe adding ctrl-drag for always scrolling is a good idea. I don't see a good solution for gestures :-(
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that to be the default configuration :) But since clicking and dragging already are clearly separate functions, how is this significantly different? Umm, let's continue at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94516
Hmm, nevermind me.. I was worrying that this only on images would exclude images as links, but since gestures seem to work there, forget I ever said anything. :) That's how I think it should work.
Bah, that'll teach me to never evaluate a patch when there are few of my own conflicting. I had already grown so used to having gestures on the right button I forgot it's not normal :-] I think gestures should work even on images that are links, because it is not always obvious which images are also links. And if the image is big or there are many of them, you're back at the original problem.
Hi, hope this is the right place to post this... http://bugs.debian.org/169687 is requesting that gestures over links work on the link target, like in galeon1: <quote> One of the most useful things for me about the galeon gestures is that they can be applied to links. In particular, a "new window" or "new tab" gesture which was begun on a link will open that link in the new window (or tab) This made it extremely convenient to arbitrarily pop up new windows or tabs. </quote>
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