Bug 461671

Summary: Put Overview gestures on four fingers swipe instead of pinch
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: ryu.ketsueki
Component: GesturesAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, putr4.s, vbheghyv
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/028dd552cfb9d826b40b9620d869c98d2aa3dca3 Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.0
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Description ryu.ketsueki 2022-11-10 17:08:23 UTC 
SUMMARY
This is an usability issue I have with the Overview trackpad gesture. I remember that when it was still experimental, it was on four fingers swipe upwards and Desktop Grid was on four fingers pinch, which actually makes sense given the way those effects occur during the gesture. But now they're the other way around, feeling completely unnatural and there is also the problem of being unable to reliably do pinch gestures with four fingers. Almost always, it triggers the other gestures first, like the four fingers downwards or upwards. I use a Lenovo Ideapad 330 and it does support multitouch gestures nicely, but is a nightmare to do pinch gestures with so many fingers on it

So I ask to put them back to how they were before during testing. Put overview gesture back on four fingers going upwards. I don't understand why they were made the other way around before release. If that is not possible, is it possible to at least get an option to swap the two?


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20221107
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.0.7-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-7020U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 11.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 81FE
System Version: Lenovo ideapad 330-15IKB
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-11-10 20:43:46 UTC 
Ultimately I believe we returned to four finger swipe up showing the Desktop Drig to preserve people's existing muscle memory. But I agree with you, Overview is a better default here.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-08-12 13:49:22 UTC 
*** Bug 473267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Prajna Sariputra 2023-11-04 08:58:25 UTC 
With Plasma 6 there is a new effect that combines the overview and desktop grid effects into a three state design, which also changed the gestures again, so the overview will be accessible by either 4 finger swipe up once or 4 finger swipe down twice (the latter will first open the grid before it switches to the overview on the second swipe).