Canonical System Image

Preview horizontal swiping removed in OTA-10

Bug #1567685 reported by Dave H on 2016-04-07

This bug affects 17 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Canonical System Image	Confirmed	Medium	Michał Sawicz	Canonical System Image backlog
Ubuntu UX	New	Undecided	Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Sorry I not sure if this is the correct place to report this. My hardware is the MX4 with OTA-10 update.
I am a little disappointed with the OTA-10 update, one of the best scope features "swipe left and right through cashed (second level down) more detailed articles" such as used on the softpedia and news scopes, has been removed. This feature was very easy to use and did not require you to keep using the back button to the top level scope items to select the next text to read. This function was on all scopes (I think), upto OTA-9.1, some such Softpeadia and the news scope used it to great effect. I was hoping this would become more commonly used giving less need to go to the website. Can you please consider adding this excellent feature back in or OTA-11.

Please see examples scope 2nd level swipe to the right showing the first article and moving to the next (OTA 9.1). You cant do this on OTA-10, real same. I also think it looked so cool that it was a real selling point for the software.

Thanks for your support and hard work, love Ubuntu Touch and have already placed an order for the BQ M10 tablet,

Best regards

Dave H

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Dave H (dhandhelen-s) wrote on 2016-04-07:

scope 2nd level swipe to the right showing the first article and moving to the next (OTA 9.1). Edit (974.1 KiB, image/png)

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David Gámiz Jiménez (david-gamiz) wrote on 2016-04-08:

Not was created in the correct place, I think. Maybe this is the correct site: https://launchpad.net/unity-scopes

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Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp) wrote on 2016-04-08:

The same in Apps Scope on rc308.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-04-08:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Confirmed

Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) on 2016-04-08

affects:

500px-scope → ubuntu

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2016-04-08

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) on 2016-04-08

affects:

ubuntu → unity8 (Ubuntu)

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote on 2016-04-08:

Yes, was removed on purpose https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1541967

summary:	- Scope level 2 swipe through articles removed in OTA-10 + Preview horizontal swiping removed in OTA-10
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2016-04-08

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
milestone:	none → 11
assignee:	nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Mateo Salta (mateo-salta) wrote on 2016-04-08:

please put back on purpose, or at least expose setting to enable.

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Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp) wrote on 2016-04-08:

It was changed with a 'Bug heat' of 12 and affecting 2 people (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1541967)

Here the 'Bug heat' is 50 and affecting 10 people.

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote on 2016-04-08:

Just to support why we did this: this came out of user testing - people were often hitting the edge swipe when trying to switch between previews (or vice versa). We are hoping to bring this back in a better way - it obviously is an important thing, so we'll try and put more priority on this.

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Brad Johnson (bradkalproductions) wrote on 2016-04-08:

#10

I don’t understand how scrolling through previews are and different then scrolling through favourited scopes?

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Michal Predotka (mpredotka) wrote on 2016-04-08:

#11

I agree it's not easily discoverable but once you know it, you can swipe (for example) through articles in news scope or results in the Ubuntu Store scope without going back to summary. For me it's the same as swiping through photos in Gallery app.

Maybe it'd be better to make it more discoverable for potential new users than removing this functionality from the users who already use it and like it very much.

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Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp) wrote on 2016-04-08:

#12

About that said in comment #9:

> people were often hitting the edge swipe when trying to switch between previews

I have the same issue when swiping to change between apps: I often want to change to the previous app and my finger goes further and the application switcher is opened.

I think I have to practice more.

Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) on 2016-04-12