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Gestures to control the alarm #415

Open MartinX3 opened 2 years ago

MartinX3 commented 2 years ago

Gestures to control the alarm

Summary

I want to shake and flip the phone

Motivation

Not looking at the screen and touching buttons.

Description

Shake -> Stop alarm Flip -> Snooze alarm

Drawbacks, risks and assumptions

Your phone flies out of the window

Rationale and alternatives

Touching the buttons. But if the screen is black, the text dark yellow and the sun hits my display, I hardly see anything.

yuriykulikov commented 2 years ago

Hello @MartinX3, I have experimented with this feature a while ago and decided to drop it for a very simple reason. The probability of switching off the alarm by accident is very high. I will keep the issue open, but I won't work on this anytime soon.

yuriykulikov commented 2 years ago

Closing this because given the current trend this won't be implemented anytime soon.

MartinX3 commented 2 years ago

And no PR is allowed? I use issues also as TODO-Lists

yuriykulikov commented 2 years ago

PRs are allowed, of course. I was cleaning issues up a bit because at the moment I don't have enough time fore the app and have to prioritize.

MartinX3 commented 2 years ago

I understand you very well. And I share your free time problems as well. Thank you. :)

mcg-android commented 10 months ago

I have experimented with this feature a while ago and decided to drop it for a very simple reason. The probability of switching off the alarm by accident is very high.

I've used the clock app included in LineageOS for quite a while, which gives a choice between "snooze", "dismiss", and "do nothing" for each of the two actions "flip" and "shake". I only activated "shake" to cause "snooze".

I had to shake strongly to cause an effect, and I don't think I ever accidentally snoozed an alarm. Rather on the contrary: Because I got used to "shake for snoozing" and "swipe for dismissing" an alarm, it no longer happened that I swiped into the wrong direction (which easily happened if the phone was lying 180° off its usual alignment), accidentally dismissing instead of snoozing...