[sdk] Swipe to remove/answer/switch inconsistent

[Andrea Cimitan]

Hi guys, I noticed the horizontal swipes in the interface behave in different ways meaning different things, I wish we could have common positive/negative meanings on the directions they are applied.

On snap decision calls, a left to right swipe has a positive meaning, answer the call.
On indicator message, a left to right swipe has a negative meaning, remove the message.

I guess the same applies to apps, contact app does left to right with a negative meaning, to remove the contact.

Lock screen can be swiped away any direction, but on the edge demo we recommend doing a right to left for "removing" the lockscreen.

A right to left edge swipe has a meaning of switching context, like swiping it away (maybe negative meaning or we should ignore the case?)

Can we come up with a consistent behaviour? What you think?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Sorry for the shuffling: Seb just explained to me that the UI controls indicator-messages uses are provided by unity8.)

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

I added tasks for ubuntu-settings-components and UITK, as to standardize most of this we should get as high upstream as possible.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Of what nature are the existing components? With buttons right now there's a similar notion of positive and negative but so far it was agreed that it's not feasible to carve this into the API; meaning it's up to each app including a hard-coded colors, which obviously isn't ideal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

Related, it seems the bq aquaris manual is wrong about how to receive calls:

    Receiving Calls
    To pick up an incoming call, simply tap the green receiver icon you see
    on the screen when the phone is ringing.

According to an aquaris owner [1], one has to swipe.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg11877.html

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Setting to High for dialer-app because this is apparently causing people to miss calls.)

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

Removing address book app, since it does not contain any swipe gesture.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

unity8 waiting for design -> Incomplete

[Femma (femma)]

After a conversation with Ting-Ray the UX researcher, this is not a problem from a Usability perspective and therefore not a bug.