Qgvdial Keeps Running After Meego Harmattan 'Swipe Down' Gesture

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use the ‘Swipe Down’ gesture to close a running program in Nokia N9's 
Meego Harmattan.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The ‘Swipe Down’ gesture is used in Meego Harmattan applications to fully 
close a program, while any other ‘Swipe’ gesture (Left, Right, Up) should 
put the application in the background and return the user to the last home view.

Instead, the ‘Swipe Down’ gesture minimizes the application instead of 
closing it without providing an application ‘Card’ in Meego Harmattan's 
‘Open Applications’ home view to show that qgvdial is still running on the 
system.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
qgvdial 0.3.911_armel; Meego 1.2 Harmattan PR 1.2 (30.2012.07-1_PR_001) on 
Nokia N9

Please provide any additional information below.
While the wiki's ‘UiNotes’ describes the ‘long press’ gesture as the 
way to close the application (as such, a feature); the current implementation 
of application hiding and closing does not follow the UX Guidelines for Meego 
1.2 Harmattan, which defines ‘Swipe Down’ as the close gesture, while a 
‘Swipe’ to the left, right, or top is the hide gesture, which keeps the 
application running and shown on the ‘Open Applications’ home view.

While it's not a deal breaker by any stretch of the imagination, I'd like to 
see support for Meego 1.2 Harmattan's ‘Swipe’ gestures in future versions 
to provide users of Meego 1.2 Harmattan a consistent way of hiding and closing 
applications in compliance with the UX guidelines.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dgeron...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2012 at 6:16

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Many of the design choices for qgvdial have been to reduce cost of using it.
Reduced network traffic, being completely quiescent without user input and the 
darker screens are all so that the user does not have bandwidth costs or 
battery costs.

When qgvdial starts up, it logs in to the users Google Voice account. The 
network traffic and the CPU processing required for this login process is NOT 
trivial. Closing and opening the app for every phone call is time consuming and 
drains the battery and increases network access costs unnecessarily.

I do know that swipe down to close is one of the UX guidelines. I have chosen 
to ignore it for the sake of cost of usage.
If you feel strongly about it, I can add a setting by which you can control 
what happens for swipe down: close or hide.

Original comment by yuvr...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2012 at 4:36

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Feel free to re-open this bug if you want that setting.

Original comment by yuvr...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2012 at 12:57

• Changed state: WontFix