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Two-finger Forward/Back gestures [$35]

Bug #1006115 reported by Danielle Foré on 2012-05-29

This bug affects 13 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Files	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned	Files juno-beta1
Midori Web Browser	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned
Switchboard	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

It should be possible to go forward and back by using a two-finger horizontal swipe gesture.

This is freaking awesome in Safari on Lion. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBmWgvee-M

Bonus points for 1:1 finger tracking and an animation.

Massive bonus points for doing this in a way that we can easily copy to other apps.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2012-05-29

tags:

added: gesture

Avi Romanoff (aroman) on 2012-06-17

Changed in switchboard:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Avi Romanoff (aroman) on 2012-06-17

Changed in switchboard:
status:	New → Confirmed

Avi Romanoff (aroman) on 2012-06-17

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	none → 2.0

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2012-06-25

Changed in midori:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2012-08-12

Changed in pantheon-files:
status:	New → Confirmed

Revision history for this message

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2012-11-24:

Adding Granite here, since there is NavigationBox

Changed in granite:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2013-04-15

Changed in granite:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in midori:
status:	New → Confirmed

gue5t gue5t (gue5t) on 2013-04-25

summary:

- Forward/Back with gestures
+ Two-finger Forward/Back gestures

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Eduard Gotwig (gotwig) wrote on 2013-05-13: Re: Two-finger Forward/Back gestures

How would applications even be able to handle that, there is nothing like that out for gnome 3.8.

I suggest that we include touchegg, but its already to late for this cycle.

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2013-06-22

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	1.1 → 0.3-beta1

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Linus Bobcat (biobunny-exe) wrote on 2013-09-08:

With this gesture, it might make scrolling sideways impossible. Why not use three finger swipe?

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Cameron Norman (cameronnemo) wrote on 2013-09-30:

Observing Linux Bobcat's point that this would obviously break horizontal scrolling with two finger scrolling, should this be (re)assigned to UX?

Personally, I think three finger swipe is good.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2013-10-01:

In Mac OS, horizontal scroll is still respected and it only activates if you cannot scroll further.

If we want to keep a hierarchy (1 finger pointer, 2 finger app, 3 finger shell) it wouldn't make sense to jump to three fingers. And I think we want to use as few fingers as possible. 4 finger swipe to change desktops would be a pain.

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2014-03-08

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	isis-beta1 → none

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-05-24:

Okay, so the Gestures branch just landed in Gtk 3.14 and the gestures developer has example code for swiping (that doesn't inhibit horizontal scrolling!). Check it out: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730656

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2015-02-01

no longer affects:

granite

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2015-03-26

Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone:	none → loki-beta1

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2015-05-01

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	none → loki-beta1

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Maxim Taranov (png2378) wrote on 2015-12-18:

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/922284-two-finger-forward-back-gestures

summary:	- Two-finger Forward/Back gestures + Two-finger Forward/Back gestures [$35]
tags:	added: bounty

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2016-02-03

Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone:	loki-beta1 → none
Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	loki-beta1 → none

Danielle Foré (danrabbit) on 2016-08-15

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	none → loki+1-beta1
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone:	none → loki+1-beta1

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2016-12-08

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	2.2.0 → juno-beta1

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2017-02-01

Changed in switchboard:
milestone:	2.2.1 → juno-beta1

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Erick Ozaki (erick-ozaki) wrote on 2018-04-18:

Hi, fellows
I don't even know if this is the right place for it, and I am sorry if it is not, but I use elementary for a while now, and used touchegg which you seem to be looking into. It has an issue when it comes to gestures over plain desktop, since it counts on gestures being made over a window to work properly. I stopped using it and now use fusuma (https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma), which works pretty fine, even over plain desktop. Thought this could be a good suggestion.