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Add gestures to shortcut overlay #92

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pongloongyeat opened this issue Mar 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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Add gestures to shortcut overlay #92

pongloongyeat opened this issue Mar 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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Needs Design Waiting for input from the UX team Priority: Wishlist Not a priority, but something that might be nice Status: Confirmed Verified by someone other than the reporter

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pongloongyeat commented Mar 9, 2021

Problem

Hard to know what gestures do what. Might be obvious to the general user but this is hard for users who are new to using laptops/newcomers in general.

Proposal

Add gestures to the shortcut overlay. Suggested list of gestures to be added:

  • Multitasking view
  • Switch workspaces
  • Scroll
  • Delete current workspace (I'm not sure if there's such a gesture)

Possible issues

  • Unlike shortcuts, it's hard to visualise and show a nice label for gestures. It probably has to be described i.e. "Swipe up with four fingers", etc.
  • Looks out of place. Everything on the shortcut overlay are keyboard shortcuts. Having a trackpad gesture seems really out of place here.

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@cassidyjames cassidyjames added Needs Design Waiting for input from the UX team Priority: Wishlist Not a priority, but something that might be nice Status: Confirmed Verified by someone other than the reporter labels Apr 10, 2021
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I definitely want to think through and sketch/prototype this before we get too far, but I agree it could make sense to show gestures here. They should similarly pick up the gestures as configured by the current user as well. My initial thought is adding a stack switcher up top (similar to the idea for #28), and have a Gestures page with these; that also gives us a bit more flexibility with the layout, as it doesn't need to strictly match the keyboard page.

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