GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 788994
gestures: make content "stick to finger" for feedback when applying four-finger-swipe
Last modified: 2018-07-31 00:47:33 UTC
Gestures are fantastic. However, if you don't have feedback that you are starting a gesture, it is unpredictable as to whether or not you are activating the gesture. I think it makes sense for gnome-shell to use the gesture update signals to interactively move the workspace up/down based on the Y-delta from the gesture event. In Builder, we use GtkGesturePan (but I haven't looked to see what Shell is using w/ Clutter) and the begin/update/end signals give us everything we need for sticky-content feedback.
Totally agree !!! I just want to add something : is it possible to switch workspaces with 3 fingers instead of 4. And it'll be perfect if you can enable windows-switching with horizontal 3 fingers scroll with "stick to finger" features too. This feature imitate alt+tab and once activated, 3 fingers vertical scroll imitated up/down arrows. Best of the best,
(In reply to usbkey9 from comment #1) > I just want to add something : is it possible to switch workspaces with 3 > fingers instead of 4. My problem with 3-finger gestures being used by the compositor is that I need that in applications I write. Now, it *should* be possible for 3-finger to work for both the compositor and the application, and the app wins if it supports the event. But in practice, I've had lots of inconsistency around that working correctly. For example, in Builder, I often have my three-finger gesture leave me at the gnome-shell overview instead of the intended gesture in the application.
Hi Chistian, Sorry but, I thank that it will be better(more productive) for everyone to hase easy-gestures for often used action instead of specific app action. I propose to you to use 4 finger gesture in builder =) Best,
Hi Christian, any up ? Sorry for insisting, but I think it's a "very" important feature Best,
(In reply to usbkey9 from comment #4) > Sorry for insisting, but I think it's a "very" important feature I'm not a gnome-shell developer, sorry.
(In reply to usbkey9 from comment #1) > I just want to add something : is it possible to switch workspaces with 3 > fingers instead of 4. This is completely unrelated to this report. Please add your comments to the existing bug 783119 instead (also note bug 767543 which has a patch). But note that for the reasons pointed out by Christian, we are - definitively not going to make the number of fingers configurable - unlikely to change the existing swipe gestures to three fingers
FWIW this is implemented in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/148
The MR was merged, closing.