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When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. Sorry for the bad focus. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

As reported by @lomo inhttps://together.jolla.com/question/13256/fine-tune-swipe-gesture-for-pulley-menu/ in https://together.jolla.com/question/13256/fine-tune-swipe-gesture-for-pulley-menu/ it seems that a side swipe has the same issue. Changing heading to reflect that.

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

As reported by @lomo in https://together.jolla.com/question/13256/fine-tune-swipe-gesture-for-pulley-menu/ it seems that a side swipe has the same issue. Changing heading to reflect that.

When I swipe down to close an application or to lock the screen I've noticed that the gesture is very sensitive on direction. Unless you make the swipe only very close to orthogonal to the screen border it is not accepted as a "close" swipe. Instead it's regarded as a downward drag movement and only the pulley menu is activated, the content is scrolled or, if the home screen is active, move to the lock screen, even though the movement comes from outside of the screen.

Edit: Since there seems to be a problem with reproducibility I wanted to find out why it happened to me on a regular basis. It seems to be dependent on the straightness of the movement more than direction. Using my index finger I do a fairly straight swipe and then I can do that almost diagonally and my Jolla still regards it as a close swipe, but if I use my thumb (which I do most of the times) the movement is more like a small arc and even if I start perpendicular to the screen border it still isn't handled as a close swipe most of the times.

Edit2: Did a small video showing the issue. http://youtu.be/5-4SDLcK0_M

As reported by @lomo in https://together.jolla.com/question/13256/fine-tune-swipe-gesture-for-pulley-menu/ it seems that a side swipe has the same issue. Changing heading to reflect that.