Start application on pointer-release

psifidotos / nowdock-plasmoid

Plasma 5 plasmoid that creates a plank or mac style effect for tasks

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Start application on pointer-release #8

Closed Steinhagen closed 8 years ago

Steinhagen commented 8 years ago

The application should be started at pointer-release rather than at pointer-press. This is an accessibility issue for the scenario when you're trying to do a pointer-hold on the applet.

psifidotos commented 8 years ago

Are you describing the dragging when it should start? It conflicts with pointer-hold for applets?

Steinhagen commented 8 years ago

First, the behavior is not consistent with the rest of plasma. For example, the applications from the icon task manager in plasma start when releasing the mouse button.
Second, the current behavior of the applet makes displaying the context menu for widgets almost impossible. To reproduce this:
Unlock widgets.
Add the dock to the desktop as an applet (not inside of a panel).
Press and hold an icon from the dock to display the applet options (Resize, Rotate, Now Dock Options). The options should be displayed instead of opening the application.

psifidotos commented 8 years ago

This is going to be fixed probably in the next release which is going to enable dragging... --the onRelease event is already fixed... The applications launch after the release event...

Thanks a lot for the report because I had enabled dragging and was forcing the user in order to drag to pressandhold first... I will update this to be consistent with the inteface...

Steinhagen commented 8 years ago

I've checked the dragging branch and this is indeed fixed. Thanks for looking into this.

psifidotos commented 8 years ago

Thank you for your interest!!!

regards, michail