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[Albert Astals Cid <albert.astals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 December 2013 12:00:03 Michael Zanetti wrote:
> 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.

Another solution this case BB10:
 * Two finger swipe up/down will show/hide the OSK no matter where you are.
 * Long pressing the "space" key will hide the OSK if it's shown (has a small 
icon showing that)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Br,
> Michael