Allow to swipe away from a picture

[timonoj]

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Describe The Feature Request Below

I think it would be great to be able to swipe away (left, right, up... Any direction could be agreed) in order to to back from viewing a picture in full screen. At this moment you need to tap to bring up the soft navigation bar, and then tap again on the back button. A swipe would be much more intuitive and faster.

Thanks!

[MV-GH]

We used to have that (swipe up to exit) but for some phones it caused pinch zooming (with your fingers zooming) to be weird. So I had it removed. I could not reproduce this, so I couldn't test and fix it. So If someone adds it, they will have to add a setting for it + opt in.

[timonoj]

Thanks! Actually I'd be perfectly fine with an opt-in setting, no reason to force it on people not wanting it. But I think it would be rather useful, instead of two necessary taps right now.

[MV-GH]

I use gestures for navigation in Android. Much better imo than any custom gesture to go back.

[timonoj]

I'm afraid that won't work on phones with physical buttons, for example. At any rate, I tried swipe gestures for normal phone navigation and for the life of me I couldn't get used to it. I reckon there are a bunch of users still using normal navigation buttons, and so this would be useful for everyone else not using system-wide gestures.