GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720518
The navigation bar doesn't seem discoverable
Last modified: 2014-02-24 16:55:36 UTC
The overlaid navigation controls are currently shown at different times - the page buttons are displayed when you move the pointer, while the bar (with the scrubbing bar) is displayed on click. I'm not convinced that the bar will be discoverable if a click is required to see it. Maybe it would make sense to show all the navigation controls at the same time (after pointer movement)?
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm not convinced that the bar will be discoverable if a click is required to > see it. Maybe it would make sense to show all the navigation controls at the > same time (after pointer movement)? Yes, I agree. I discussed this with Jon and Jimmac at GUADEC and we agreed that it makes sense to show all the navigation controls at the same time after pointer movement. This is the current behaviour in gnome-photos. I have not gotten around to fixing gnome-documents.
There are some problems with showing all the navigation controls at pointer movement. For example if one follows text that he is reading with pointer (not necessarily word by word, i like to follow it more vaguely), the scrub bar will be always visible or constantly reappearring. That is a distraction and at the bottom of the page it also makes it harder to read text (i don't mind the next and previous buttons though, they are tiny). Could you please make it so that in the future it will still be possible to turn on the current behaviour (show scrub bar only on click) via gsettings or preferences in Gnome Documents app?
Oh, and in fullscreen mode, in addition to scrub bar, header bar (with back, search and gear buttons) also appears on click. I definetely don't want to see header bar every time I move mouse.
Kindle cloud reader shows next and previous page controls only when pointer moves past some horizontal position (i.e. far enough to the right for next and far enough to the left for previous). I would prefer that behaviour for next and previous buttons, while for scrub bar I like that it appears on click (in Kindle cloud reader, it appears when pointer moves past some vertical position, which is also not bad). Maybe there could be some setting where one could choose between "discoverable" mode and "distractionless" mode. In first, everything is shown on every pointer movement, in the second, scrub bar is shown on click and next/previous buttons when pointer moves far enough to the right/left.
*** Bug 711789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 270125 [details] [review] preview: Show the navigation bar after pointer movement
Review of attachment 270125 [details] [review]: Looks good to me
Comment on attachment 270125 [details] [review] preview: Show the navigation bar after pointer movement Thanks for the review!