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[Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12.12.2013 13:30, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Michał Sawicz [2013-12-12 12:37 +0100]:
> > Actually I don't think that's true. It became difficult to swipe the
> > keyboard down indeed, when we moved to Mir, for input routing
> > reasons.
>
> This didn't start with moving to Mir, but only with the recent image
> (57). It has certainly worked to swipe down from above the OSK (like,
> starting to the left of the "Send" button) to the bottom screen edge.

Not under Mir, I'm afraid. With Mir we can't have areas of the screen 
that both the OSK and the app respond to input. This was causing 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1237472, because the 
browser's text area was partly covered by the input-opaque, 
visually-transparent area of the OSK.

> > You can still swipe it down when starting your swipe between the top
> > edge of the OSK and the top row of keys.
>
> > There's ideas to improve that (i.e. you should be able to swipe down
> > *anywhere* on the keyboard to swipe it down, really), I believe
> > Jouni filed a bug, can't find it now, though...
>
> Indeed, and that's how it worked until recently.

It never worked like this - there was an area *on top* of the keyboard 
(y coordinate) that was responsive to the downward swipe - was basically 
a bigger target than we have now. And that changed soon after we 
switched to Mir.

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> To a large extent this is also a design problem in messaging-app. It's
> next to impossible to find out how to close the OSK after sending a
> message in order to go back to the message list. Neither Tiago nor I
> managed to accidentally stumble over hitting this small area even
> after lots of trying. Perhaps after hitting "Send" it should
> automatically close the OSK if it is meant to be so utterly hard to
> close by hand?

That's going to improve soon - the "back" button is moving to the 
header, so it should be accessible regardless of the OSK being on screen 
or not. The conflict between the OSK and the toolbar is still an open 
design issue indeed.

> Funnily I just now discovererd that you can also close the OSK with a
> double-tap above it (in the empty area left of the Send button).

That's most probably a bug, rather than feature - if it's meant to 
unfocus onTapOutside, just one should be enough.

> Does anyone know some actual specification for the intended behaviour,
> so that we can encode that in the test?

'fraid not:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1234982
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1259596

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Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Services Ltd.