GUI improvement: Pulley menu toggle gesture
asked 2015-04-27 22:26:39 +0300
I don't know if this treads on other gestures in 1.x or 2.x.
tl;dr It would be nice to be able to activate (toggle on/off) pulley menus by pressing and holding the screen edge.
This would be particularly useful for browser pulley menus which, as far as I can tell, are not present. It would also suit long-scrolling screens with a pulley at some far end of a tedious series of backward gestures. Add-on pulley menus could be made available on Github, in Jolla Store, and elsewhere, exposing specific functionality, like a dbus pulley: dbus on-demand, in-context, with narrowed, featureful relevant items shown and modifiable. With this, Unlike becomes Unblock, Unleash, Unfold, Unearth, Uncover; Unified.
dbus really should be (at least) that easy, especially for people who do not usually consider what they do to be programming.
A hold on the display edge, or a corner, for example, would bring up one or more pulley edge glow widgets and the user could then use the pulley.
The system should quickly be able to detect whether the user's gesture is an edge-hold or a drag inwards from the edge.
This would make multiple edges with single or multiple pulleys on each more compelling, since they would be available yet easy to hide when not needed.
Related: Pulley icons, Saving webpages, Single-edge multipulley, Clipboard is broken, Please fix Clipboard this way, DBus to set the Alarm?.