Re: Gestures implementation (was: Debian defaults (was: Galeon 1.3 comments))

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:49:58PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:34, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:38:23PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:04, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > As an example of something needing fixed with the current gesture
> > > > support is the following. I had not yet touched the right mouse button
> > > > since i launched galeon today, and i pressed it quickly to bring up a
> > > > menu (not moving the mouse or anything). What happened is that, maybe
> > > > because bonobo was generating a menu or something such, apparently the
> > > > mouse release event was lost, and it stayed with the little stencil
> > > > icon, in gesture mode i guess. This is with an Athlon XP1700 and no load
> > > > except the one from galeon.
> > > > 
> > > > Subsequent right mouse click didn't have this problem. 
> > > 
> > > Yes, I'm aware of that problem.  I have an idea that might help, but the
> > > bug is quite difficult to trigger, and even if you do it's relatively
> > > harmless, so it hasn't been a priority.
> > 
> > The unaware user could trigger an unwated gesture though.
> 
> No, he couldn't.  A gesture is considered finished on mouse-up.  While
> drawing the gesture another mouse-down or pressing a key cancels the
> gesture.  When the cursor gets stuck as the little pencil, the mouse
> button is already up, we just didn't see the mouse-up event.  Your
> options are really only to cancel the gesture or cancel the gesture :)
> 
> With my 366 Celeron I can reliably get the cursor stuck, but the click
> has to be really quick.

I don't believe it is related to the fasteness of the processor, as
said, a XP 1700+ is rather fast, and i get it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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