GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 657175
better feedback for long presses
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:14:56 UTC
There are a few places in the shell where a "long press" will bring up a context menu (for instance the dash, and some proposed changes in bug 652183. This a very important feature for tablet users and users with 1 button mice. It suffers two problems, though: 1) When the user is in the middle of a long press, they don't get any feedback that it is being evaluated as such. This could lead the user to prematurely releasing to initiate it again, and then subsequently, accidentally initiating a short click. Maybe some sort of subtle animation would help here? The ripples? 2) There's no obvious way to know where long presses are allowed. Is there some consistent thing we could do on prelight? Granted, not all tablets support hovering. Some other way to clue the user in?
(In reply to Ray Strode [halfline] from comment #0) > There are a few places in the shell where a "long press" will bring up a > context menu (for instance the dash, and some proposed changes in bug > 652183. This a very important feature for tablet users and users with 1 > button mice. > > It suffers two problems, though: > > 1) When the user is in the middle of a long press, they don't get any > feedback that it is being evaluated as such. This could lead the user to > prematurely releasing to initiate it again, and then subsequently, > accidentally initiating a short click. Maybe some sort of subtle animation > would help here? The ripples? > > 2) There's no obvious way to know where long presses are allowed. Is there > some consistent thing we could do on prelight? Granted, not all tablets > support hovering. Some other way to clue the user in? I think that this old issue should be revisited due the "inevitable" touch desktop/tablets invasion. In my opinion, the Android +5.0 solution could be a good starting point, especially to resolve the long press feedback described in point 2.
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