releasing Subsurface-mobile 3.0

[Dirk Hohndel]

That is... surprising.
I am testing on two iPhones. a 6plus and an 8plus (so both are the larger size). Also testing on a 2016 iPad pro 9.6” and a 2019 iPad pro 9.6”. And unless I deliberately try to drag the action button while hitting it, I cannot reproduce your issue.
But then, what I experience isn’t really the point (because I don’t actually use any of these devices (with the exception of the 2019 iPad that I am also using to write this email) on a day-to-day basis. What matters is the experience of actual users like you.

I spent some time browsing through the Kirigami sources to see if we could simply turn off the response of the action button to being dragged. Unfortunately it appears that this is a non-optional feature as far as Kirigami is concerned. I will spend some time this morning to see if there is a quick hack where we simply patch the version of Kirigami that we bundle with Subsurface-mobile that we could use to either disable this or make it a LOT less sensitive. I’ll keep the list posted if I succeed.

For now I am holding off on releasing Subsurface-mobile 3.0

/D


> On Mar 27, 2020, at 09:42, Hartley Horwitz <hhrwtz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> Sorry for the late reply.  My testing is with a 4-year old iPhone (iPhone 6).  So it isn't due to the new 'no button' phone, nor of a super dense pixel count screen.
> 
> I tried re-sizing the font, hoping that would change things, but of course this doesn't change the size of the menus or buttons at the bottom of the screen.  I tried using my pinky finger (smallest finger) and the results were the same. 
>  
> I'm hopeful that someone else with a newer iPhone can test the new beta. I don't have access to a larger phone and borrowing phones of friends or colleagues isn't possible given our Covid lockdown. If the new release is working great, but not on an old iPhone, then maybe it is ok to release today. I may be one of the few users with an old phone.
> 
> ...Hartley
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> 
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:36 PM Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Replying to myself (bad style, I know).
>> No, I think my guess is wrong. It seems to be something else that appears to happen on very high density screens (which happen to be often the newer phones).
>> A quick hack to scale the UI (just lie about the device pixel ratio) and indeed the moment I don’t hit the action button absolutely straight, the moment there is the slightest sideway or up movement, the GlobalDrawer (if you hit slightly “towards the right) or partially both drawers (if you drift upwards while clicking the filter button) are shown.
>> Now the question becomes “what can we do about this”.
>> I have some crazy speculation what might be causing this - maybe Kirigami is mis-interpreting the clicks and it isn’t iOS’s fault.
>> My family has requested that I stop sitting in my office, so I’m not sure I’ll be able to try to fix this tonight... and of course that leaves me with the question of whether I should try to release 3.0 tomorrow. Given that I am off from work today and tomorrow the timing to release this week seemed great. But on the flip side, creating a rather poor user experience for a lot of users is not the way to go...
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> /D
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