[lively-kernel] Right Click on mobile devices

Steve Wart steve at wart.ca
Thu Dec 1 19:45:05 CET 2011


Definitely touch and hold. Disambiguating a drag should be possible (at
least it's one of the default gesture recognizers available on the iPad)

Thanks for supporting tablets :)

Cheers,
Steve

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Fabian Bornhofen
<fbornhofen at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi -
>
> glad to hear you're moving forward!
> My feeling is also that a gesture might be too hard to discover. I'd
> just give double tap or touch and hold a shot and then see which is
> less likely to be triggered by accident. And, of course, which feels
> better. We can still think of ways to lock morphs.
>
> Best,
> Fabian
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Benjamin Siegmund
> <benjamin.siegmund at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > We are currently working on making lively ready for mobile devices. As
> lively makes excessive use of the right mouse button, we need a way to
> emulate it. We would like to hear your opinions on how to do it. Here are
> our thoughts so far:
> >
> > Double Tap:
> > Double tap is fast and difficult to trigger accidentally. It can be
> confused with zooming in browser context, though.
> >
> > Touch and hold:
> > Touch and hold is somehow known to mobile users, as it's used by
> different systems, but it can be triggered accidentally when dragging.
> >
> > Gestures:
> > Not discoverable in any way, but probably not confusable with anything
> else.
> >
> > So what do you think?
> >
> > Your bachelor's team from the HPI
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