Close apps by swiping up

We added a close button on multitasking cards in order to be able to remove the one from the headerbar, but this was always intended as an intermediate solution until we can have a swipe gesture to close apps. The behavior I had in mind was that cards would be swipeable only upwards (not downwards).

Could we use HdyPaginator for this?

The behavior I had in mind was that cards would be swipeable only upwards (not downwards)

i think that was the idea basically from the start but we did not have HdyPaginator then. i wanted to do s.th. similar for system modal dialogs and @exalm said that would work so it should work here too.

if somebody wants so end a patch, that'd be great!

I wonder if this is the same case as libhandy#24

The main challenge here is going to be animating deletion though, maybe that should be a paginator feature. (edit: libhandy#173)

mentioned in issue libhandy#173

mentioned in issue libhandy#178

@tobias.bernard What about swiping down rather than up? I suspect it would be less tiring for the thumb and it would make sense spacialy as you would throw the app in the apps list.

I would expect it to start closing overview/going back to the app, like it does in Android.

What about swiping down rather than up?

If we could get a nice animation where the window scales down and "contracts" back into the app icon that could make sense, but if not I think it would be weird. Where would the cards go? behind the app drawer? above it?

But either way, as @exalm pointed out, this might clash with the open/close overview gesture. We could try it once we can do nicer animations, but in the short term I don't think we should do this.

From a boring technical perspective they go behind the app draw

added overview label

mentioned in issue phoc#125

just to be sure @tobias.bernard if swipe up closes the pp we require the user to start swiping in the lower third of the screen to bring up the app grid (going from 1st to 2nd picture here:#208)?

Yes, indeed.

FTR I made a swipe-to-close demo some time ago, and it should be fairly simple to reimplement it in phosh.

https://twitter.com/alexm_gnome/status/1277725267163832321

Edit: also https://gitlab.gnome.org/exalm/swipe-demo, but I think that's a different demo.

nice! i'd welcome any patches here since that's not currently something i get around to work on.

Do we want to keep the 'x' for closing when in docked mode so closing with a mouse stays easy?

Good question. Right now I still have it in my branch, but maybe it should be only there on hover or something.

on hover would be even nicer than looking at the docked property.

mentioned in merge request !655 (merged)

closed via merge request !655 (merged)

mentioned in commit guido.gunther/libhandy-1@b146c226

mentioned in issue librem5-user-docs-common#40