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[Jouni Helminen <jouni.helminen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good Zanetti!

We were thinking about making the whole keyboard swipeable, but thought
that might interfere with swipe based keyboards like Swype later on.. in
terms of usability though it would be far superior. Maybe for a Swype
keyboard we have the top part as the touch area, and normal keyboards, the
whole keyboard becomes swipable to dismiss?


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Michael Zanetti <
michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Br,
> Michael
>
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