[dash] Can't turn off vibrate-on-touch in the dash (haptic feedback)

[Daniel van Vugt]

I can't seem to find any option that turns off vibrate-on-touch for the dash. This is driving me a little crazy. Is there an option?

I've successfully turned off vibration for the keyboard, but it seems the dash does not honour that setting.

$ system-image-cli -i
current build number: 78
device name: krillin
channel: ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed
alias: ubuntu-touch/vivid-proposed
last update: 2015-01-20 02:16:29
version version: 78
version ubuntu: 20150119
version device: 20150113-9cccefe
version custom: 20150119

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also applies to the power-off dialog (?)

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

We're using the SDK AbstractButton.qml that is the one that handles those HapticEffects.

I understand that if you want to disable vibration you'll want them for all the apps that use AbstractButton and not only the Dash? If so this should go somewhere in the SystemSettings and affect AbstractButton directly.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

need design input on this

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

On the devel-proposed channel vivid image #155 the dash icons appear to obey the "Other vibrations" setting--however, it seems like other places that use AbstractButton in some apps (music, clock, etc) have components that do not obey this setting.

[Paty Davila (dizzypaty)]

I think the problem here is with the discoverability of the 'Other vibrations' in Sound settings, which is not specific to the Dash/Scopes but rather affects system wide. If the 'Other vibrations' is off, haptip feedback is disabled when tapping cards, icons on the header, etc.

My suggestion is to change the wording of the setting or add more detail - so users can understand what 'other' means.

[Rob Taylor (q-rob-o)]

I've got the 'other vibrations' setting disabled and I'm still getting vibrations from certain buttons.

My issue (which was marked as a duplicate of this) is https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1438302. In my case it definitely isn't an issue with the discoverability of the setting.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As with Victor, I can't reproduce this bug. Examples I tested were the search button and search-back button in the header; the "All" expander in the Apps scope; and the various buttons in the "Today" > "Holidays" screen. All of them vibrate when "Other vibrations" is on, and not when it's off. So this is probably a duplicate of a fixed bug ... Yep, it's a duplicate of bug 1391877, which was fixed a month after this was reported.

I reported the problem with the Clock app and/or toolkit as bug 1482282.