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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/12/2013 07:58 AM, Bill Filler wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 08:25 AM, Michał Sawicz wrote:
>> 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.
> That's correct.
> 
>>
>>>> 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.
> Yup, the swipe area used to be a lot bigger and you could start the
> swipe above the keyboard but as Saviq points out that's not longer
> possible with Mir. We've tried to make the swipe area as big as possible
> but don't want to increase the top margin above the first row of keys
> too much. Currently (tested and working in build 62) you can swipe down
> starting from the top border of the keyboard.
> 

Anecdotal> As a user I noticed the change in behavior but I just aim at the top
of the keyboard and swipe down or tap outside the text area. It hasn't been a
big deal for me.

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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