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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 December 2013 11:42:23 Michał Sawicz wrote:
> On 13.12.2013 11:35, Sam Bull wrote:
> > It did work like that back in February actually, I think it was changed
> > within a couple of months though, because the swipe was being
> > accidentally triggered when people were attempting to type.
> 
> It must've been a very short period, then :)
> 
> > I kind of liked that behaviour, it just needed better detection between
> > typing and swiping. Also, with swipe anywhere, I had no problem
> > discovering how to dismiss the keyboard, I think it's a little less
> > discoverable now.
> 
> Yeah, the threshold just needs to be higher, but the approach seems
> feasible still. Won't help discoverability, though.


I just checked out Sailfish and Harmattan (which use the same OSK I believe and 
are similarly gesture based) and indeed, both of them allow swiping down the 
OSK from everywhere, but the swipe movement must be bigger than the height of 
one button row on the OSK for it to start moving.

Way to go IMO.

Br,
Michael