Use gestures for "move to workspace"

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Use gestures for "move to workspace" #1109

Closed danirabbit closed 1 year ago

danirabbit commented 3 years ago

Problem

When using keyboard shortcuts you can either switch to a workspace with super + arrows or move a window to a workspace with super + alt + arrows. With gestures however, there is only the option to switch to a workspace, it's not possible to move a window to another workspace

Proposal

It would be nice to be able to configure a horizontal swipe gesture to move the focused window in the direction of the swipe. For example, by default swiping horizontally with 3 fingers switches workspaces, and optionally one could move the focused window with a 4-finger swipe.

JoseExposito commented 3 years ago

It's possible to do this at the moment in a very natural way:

Place the mouse pointer on the window title
"Click" with your thumb on your touchpad to start dragging your window
Without lifting your thumb swipe to the next/previous workspace

I think this is a more natural interaction and doesn't require to memorize another gesture.... But the animation is broken.

hanaral commented 3 years ago

@JoseExposito I can't at all manage to do this.

Maybe this should be left as a context menu thing tbh

danirabbit commented 3 years ago

@JoseExposito ah yeah I mean that technically works, and it does make sense, but it is not an easy gesture to perform even on a huge magic trackpad. I can't imagine trying to do that on a laptop

JoseExposito commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I should also mention that it is only possible if you have a "clickpad", so it is not suitable for all hardware... But I wish it were, it feels like the natural thing to do.

Suzie97 commented 3 years ago

What about double tapping with three fingers and then hold to grab the window and then swipe to move the window across workspaces?

It works similar to dragging a file. Double tap to select and then just drag it.

janxkoci commented 1 year ago

Throwing my hat into the idea ring:

3 fingers = change workspace (~Super+Arrow)
4 fingers = move window while changing workspace (~Super+Alt+Arrow)

Originally posted in https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad/issues/186#issuecomment-1071492313

Edit: I now see this is in the proposal on top, oops 😬

Btw three-finger tap (=middle click) for me does for example things like:

paste selection/clipboard into text field
lower a window out of focus (push to background) in most WMs other than Gala

For this reason it feels very unnatural option for the feature discussed here.

My two cents