Re: [PATCH] Optionals single-finger scroll for touchscreens and 2-in-1's

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:12:18 -0700
> Alyssa Rosenzweig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On touchscreens, the natural way to scroll is by "moving" the page up
> > and down with the user's finger, mimicking the behaviour of most
> > touchscreen-aware browsers. Using the scrollbar on these devices is
> > clunky and imprecise unless the bar is large, which would take precious
> > screen real estate on small displays.
> > 
> > From Dillo's perspective, this action corresponds to a click-and-drag of
> > the left mouse button. Dillo already has an option for click-and-drag
> > scrolling with the middle mouse button; this patch piggybacks on that
> > functionality to optionally support left-click scrolling as well.
> > 
> 
> xinput set-button-map  bound to something is also helpful on those devices.
> 
> 
> > Normally, left-click-and-drag corresponds to text selection. When this
> > touchscreen drag preference is enabled, text selection requires the
> > Shift key to be held, which disables scrolling temporarily. The choice
> > of "Shift" aligns with Firefox's defaults for touchscreens.
> > Unfortunately, this prevents selection if Dillo is used purely on a
> > tablet (not a laptop with a touchscreen); perhaps a double-tap-and-drag
> > would be a more natural gesture.
> > 
> I tested that patch on my smartphone running debian. Mosty I am
> looking for (severe) weather forcasts. For some reason I can sometimes
> still mark text. I do not know why, found no reproducible way to do it.

this sounds interesting! Are you running Debian in a chroot in
parallel to Android or as the primary OS?

Regards,
Johannes


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