Synapse

Allow full mouse navigation

Bug #882515 reported by upkpk
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Synapse
Fix Released
Low
Jeremy Munsch
Synapse 0.2.99.2

Bug Description

Hi, some mouse navigation features would be welcome in Synapse. I know it's mainly designed to be working with a keyboard, however clicking the tray icon actually opens Synapse window, so a hybrid mode would be a good idea imo. Keep it simple like:
- Mouse wheel: scroll up and down in the list
- Clickable categories (actions, audio, apps...) are already working.
- Double-click on item: perform default/selected action.
- Right-click on item: open/close TAB menu

I've seen users confused with the fact that they can't use the mouse...

Thanks for your attention ;)

Related branches

lp:~jeremy-munsch/synapse-project/fix-mouse-navigation
Rico Tzschichholz: Approve
Diff: 126 lines (+41/-15)
5 files modified
src/ui/controller.vala (+4/-0)
src/ui/interfaces.vala (+3/-0)
src/ui/view-base.vala (+19/-12)
src/ui/view-virgilio.vala (+4/-0)
src/ui/widgets-matchlistview.vala (+11/-3)
lp:synapse-project
upkpk (upkpk)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: New → Confirmed
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Michal Hruby (mhr3) wrote :

What version are you using?

> Mouse wheel: scroll up and down in the list
Already works
> Clickable categories (actions, audio, apps...) are already working.
Already works
> Double-click on item: perform default/selected action.
Already works
> Right-click on item: open/close TAB menu
Not there and arguably not easy to discover.

Changed in synapse-project:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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upkpk (upkpk) wrote : Re: [Bug 882515] Re: Allow mouse navigation

Hello, i'm using 0.2.8.1-1 from Debian.

Confirming mouse wheel scrolling and clickable categories are already
working.

On the other side, double click doesn't work for me (I'm using Virgilio
skin but also tried with Default and Side Doish)

About the right click submenu, it's not less discoverable than pressing
TAB, and also quite an instinctive action. Since right-click is unused yet,
can it be added?

Thanks thanks

upkpk (upkpk)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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upkpk (upkpk) wrote : Re: Allow mouse navigation

Hi, now using 0.2.8.2-1, and this is not working yet (double-click and right-click)

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Michal Hruby (mhr3) wrote :

My bad, double-click is working on items in the list, not on the "main" icons.

Changed in synapse-project:
milestone: none → 0.3.0
Revision history for this message
upkpk (upkpk) wrote :

Double-click now works in 0.2.10-2 (nut sure if you touched anything, but thanks!).

About right-click, what do you think about giving it the same role as the <TAB> key?
Changing this and making synapse's window open up the file list on click would render the app fully navigable with mouse.

Thanks for considering this!

summary: - Allow mouse navigation
+ Allow full mouse navigation
Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Changed in synapse-project:
milestone: 0.2.99.1 → 0.2.99.2
Jeremy Munsch (jeremy-munsch)
Changed in synapse-project:
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Munsch (jeremy-munsch)
Jeremy Munsch (jeremy-munsch)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
importance: Undecided → Low
Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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