On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:05 PM Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> wrote: > > On 1/12/20 10:11 AM, Aleix Pol wrote: > > The second part of this is why I'm sending this e-mail. We're > > responding to global shortcuts on press rather than on release, which > > makes it impossible to handle the long press. Would it make sense to > > change it to on release? Maybe only in the cases where there's a long > > press counterpart? > > It might depend on what action the long-press is going to trigger. For > long-press to show a mobile-friendly grid-based context menu, it might > be nice to be able to long-press, slide your finger over to the item you > want to select, then release it. In this case, the release would trigger > the item under the finger, if any. > > I continue to believe that long-click almost never makes sense when > using a pointing device, though. :)
We are talking about shortcuts for physical keys (e.g. keyboard, the 3 or 4 buttons you'd have on a phone). Aleix
