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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Default touch screen edge gestures
From:       Martin_Gräßlin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2017-04-11 13:59:42
Message-ID: 943EED17-9E02-4BEA-A680-008D03406DD2 () kde ! org
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Am 11. April 2017 15:27:54 MESZ schrieb Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2017, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > 
> > > or, by default only have gestures on top and bottom edge, and leave
> > > left and
> > > right to applications (which, the user is free to override)
> > 
> > on Wayland applications cannot take any edge anyway as they don't
> know
> > their position. Which means that technically edge swipe is
> constrained to
> > the compositor.
> 
> well, if the compositor doesn't manage it and just passes events to the
> 
> application, then the application would receive touch events and do its
> 
> thing... if the application is at the edge, qtquickcomponents drawers
> would 
> just work, even if the app has no idea where in the screen it is

this can only work if:
- the window borders the screen
- is not decorated
- there is no panel
- or is fullscreen

For the common case of notebook with touch screen this is too vague and the \
fullscreen case should be handled anyway.


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