Touch Screen Related Problems

[thebunnyrules]

I want to start by saying that, although I had to uninstall it because of these bugs, I really dig this extension and hope to one day get back to it once the bugs are sorted.

Here are the issues I ran into:

1. Activities and Apps button dont work with touch. For Apps button, the Apps start to open then close then try to open again. I believe this is because the button is reading continuous press as multiple mouse clicks instead of a single press that hasn't been release yet. Seeing how touch takes alot longer to release than a mouse click it's interpreting alot of clicks. I'm having similar issues with Activities button though it's behavior is even more erratic. This could probably be resolved by telling the extension not to launch Apps or Overview until then end of the click as opposed to the initiation of it. These issues are also present in other extensions that share code with you guys such as Ubuntu Dock, Dash to Dock but are not present in the activities button of vanilla gnome shell or the Apps button added by other extensions such as the Taskbar plugin.

2. In some circumstances, edge swiping on the edge that has your panel on it crashes the touch screen. It no longer recognizes touch input until Super key is pressed on keyboard. Again this only occurs when I'm using the Dash to Something familly of extensions. For example, edge swipes are working well but when I have nautilus on and I do an edge swipe or even press the Apps button by accident, the touch screen crashes.

3. A non windows style Desktop button alternative would really be appreciated as it's very difficult to hit when using the touch screen.

4. Sometimes, my touches on favorites are interpreted as drags and they get stuck in that dragged state. The sympstoms are that they remained grayed out until I logout and log back in.

[thebunnyrules]

I'm currently using Xorg instead of Wayland in Ubuntu 17.10 because I noticed Wayland was running the shell slower and I have few apps that don't run well in Wayland. Anyway, I switched over to Wayland and tested your extension again and none of the problems manifested.

I have no idea what to make of all this.

[ghost]

I'm having the issue of detecting a held finger as multiple clicks as well, for me it tends to register as 2 clicks, meaning the app view gets instantly re-hidden and programs start 2 windows..
Tested on thinkpad x220t.

[thebunnyrules]

Yeah, I initially thought it's because I was on XOrg but I just migrated to Wayland on a fresh install and this extensions is still a mess when it comes to interacting with touch (though not as bad when I was on XOrg). Using a mouse with it is flawless and from the dev's month's long silence on this thread, I'm guessing he's not interested in supporting touch or he is unable to, so I guess it boils down to: use a mouse or don't use this extension. Too bad, this is by far one of the nicest extensions on the shell right now. I've using the Taskbar extension. Nowhere near as sexy as this extension but it works like a charm with touch.

[moqmar]

Number 4 is probably already mentioned in #223, I'm currently working on a PR.

[jderose9]

Has there been any change to the status of touch screen issues with recent gnome or dash-to-panel revisions? Thanks.

[amitkeret]

I can confirm issues 1 & 2 above are persisting.
Ubuntu 18.10 GNOME 3.30.1

[DragoCubed]

Related: #350

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Confirming on arch / wayland / gnome-shell 3.38.2+22+g3a343a8aa-1

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[hexauni]

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[jonorthwash]

I'm having issues 1 and 4, on gnome3 40.4.0, with Wayland.

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[jonorthwash]

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Yes, but it's still a problem for me, at least.

[kaimast]

When I touch app icons they just get highlighted (similar to when I hover them with my mouse), I cannot open or focus them at all.

[yeahman45]

When I touch app icons they just get highlighted (similar to when I hover them with my mouse), I cannot open or focus them at all.

same here. I also get other weird issues with touch:

• When the limit of favourite and opened apps is reached, it is very very hard to "scroll" left and right to see the other apps.
• Sometimes an app icon is in kind "drag and drop" mode... hard the describe

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[jonorthwash]

Things seem a bit better with the current version I'm running (debian marks it 52-1, metadata.json marks it 9999; running on GNOME 43.1). However, it's still impossible to switch apps: touching the icon for an open but minimised or not-foregrounded app doesn't seem to do much—default behaviour should probably be to maximise/foreground the app and switch to it.

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