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hugolabe / Wike

Wikipedia Reader for the GNOME Desktop
https://hugolabe.github.io/Wike/
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open preview on touchscreen #137

Closed camelCaseNick closed 1 year ago

camelCaseNick commented 1 year ago

Currently, the article previews are displayed on hovering over a link.

Would it be a good idea that with the preview settings active, clicking on a touchscreen (i.e. with a pointer device without a hover option) would open the preview instead of directly going to the article?

hugolabe commented 1 year ago

From a technical point of view it would be complicated since popups are not a feature of the application, but of the Wikipedia website itself.

But, above all, it doesn't seem like a good idea to me. This is not the behavior a user expects when clicking a link.

camelCaseNick commented 1 year ago

From a technical point of view it would be complicated since popups are not a feature of the application, but of the Wikipedia website itself.

I know. I'd try to implement it anyway, if you'd accept it.

But, above all, it doesn't seem like a good idea to me. This is not the behavior a user expects when clicking a link.

It is exactly what I expected from Wike when I first used it with a touchscreen. (Not sure why, because I could have known better.) It is what the Wikipedia Android app does, after all – it opens a popup (more like a flap style view from below, but serves the same purpose) and that has a “read more” button.

camelCaseNick commented 1 year ago

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As I am used to the Android app, this is how I expect a link to behave. The mobile web version does not have this feature.

camelCaseNick commented 1 year ago

Would you accept it, if it was optional?

hugolabe commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the proposal @camelCaseNick

However, one of my priorities is to keep the application as simple as possible and that happens by not loading it with options that I consider unnecessary. In this case it is a feature that frankly I do not like and I prefer not to include it.

I'm sorry.