Home view long touch displays menu in unusual location

[quozl]

In the home view, a long touch on an activity displays the menu in the top left of the screen. The menu should be displayed near the finger press.

[vaishnavi192]

is this issue open. Can I work on it ? @quozl

[chimosky]

@vaishnavi192 the issue is still open as it's not been closed, you should checkout our contributing guide which has this;

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[vaishnavi192]

Hey @quozl @chimosky I wanted some help for solving this issue. I found out that GDK doesn't provide a built-in way to detect long press events. So we can achieve this in other way by implementing x and y co-ordinates. Here is a rough example I will make changes in view.py file

import time

def _touch_event_cb(self, widget, event): if event.type == Gdk.EventType.TOUCH_BEGIN: self.touch_start_time = GLib.get_monotonic_time() elif event.type == Gdk.EventType.TOUCH_END: if self.touch_start_time is not None: elapsed_time = (GLib.get_monotonic_time() - self.touch_start_time) / 1000000
if elapsed_time > 1.0: # 1.0 seconds for a long press self.show_menu(event) self.touch_start_time = None def show_menu(self, event):

using event.x and event.y to position the menu near the finger press

    print("Long press detected at", event.x, event.y)

I am not sure if this is the correct way? can you plz guide me further?

[chimosky]

Hey @quozl @chimosky I wanted some help for solving this issue. I found out that GDK doesn't provide a built-in way to detect long press events. So we can achieve this in other way by implementing x and y co-ordinates. Here is a rough example I will make changes in view.py file

Have you been able to reproduce the issue, as I just tried and the issue no longer persists.

Gdk does provide ways to handle long press events, just depends on what exactly you want to achieve.

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