Talk:Design Team/Sugar Shell Touch Input

Touch things to fix and keep an eye on

This is a rough brain dump of things to watch out for, will move this out onto other pages where appropriate:

• Gestures
  • Swipe left right on text input widget to move insertion point one character left or right
  • Frame
    • Swipe out over any edge to hide Frame
    • Swipe in over any edge to reveal Frame
• Test at lower resolution
• Palette behaviours
  • Hover/right click
  • Clarify any primary button actions

*Frame reveal/hide
*Hide cursor during touch screen use
*Keyboard shortcuts

• • Replacements with buttons/gestures
  • Hiding boardkey hints

*Right click

• • Touch and hold gesture

*Hover hints/tips
*Double tap interaction

• • Make much more accommodating to second tap inaccuracy

*Tune cursor touch point to just below top edge of contact point
*Maximise home view icon size
*Widget size usability

• • Button spacing
  • Palette menu spacing
  • Size of hspan/vspan separator, gtk3 default looking a little better, GtkPaned
  • Check boxes to on/off slider GtkSwitch
  • 8-10mm diameter hit targets
  • Up/down menu overflow scroll widgets too short

*Screen keyboard

• • Multilingual and international text input
  • Custom activity keys/button strips
  • Trigger on text input entry
  • Slide canvas to see insertion point a.k.a. caret tracking
  • Cut/copy/paste
  • Insertion point movement
    • buttons?
    • swipe gestures?
  • Custom keyboards for different tasks
    • web
    • text
    • emoticon
    • numeric
  • Predictive text?
    • context sensitive?
    • locale sensitive
  • Uppercase font for children
  • keyboard layout descriptions?
  • 3 rows vs 4 rows with large space bar?
  • Interaction with frame UI
    • Hide frame when invoked
    • Hide/reveal when frame revealed or hidden
  • Simplify keyboard svg icon
  • Pan canvas to keep insertion point in view
  • Landscape & portrait
• Remove primary action from Neighbourhood view AP/ad-hoc widgets
• Double tap tuning to allow for errors in 2nd tap positioning
• Canvas drag scrolling
• XO 1.75 hard edge bezel?
• Screen rotation much more common/frequent
  • Landscape
  • Portrait
    • Better for long form reading/writing
    • Better use of space with on screen keyboard
• Text selection extra features
  • Copy/paste
  • Speak?