Gesture Improvements

[leolost2605]

This is a meta issue to track improvements to the gesture system. (Because I'm waiting on reviews and starting to lose track of when I can work on what. I think having it public also won't hurt so feedback or more linked issues is welcome :))

• Introduce a GesturePropertyTransition #2074

Docks related:

• Move panel hiding to the shell clients #2239 which then allows for
  • Problems with multitouch gestures and maximized windows #1003
  • Don't show PiP in Workspace Overview #225

Better Touchscreen gestures:

• Introduce a pan backend for touchscreen gestures #2096
• 1:1 Bottom edge swipe to reveal the dock #1959
• Multi-touch gestures on touch screen don't track 1:1 #1272
• Allow switching workspaces in multitasking view via swiping #1801

Misc:

• Interruptable animations Touchpad desktop switching gesture is sometimes unresponsive #1202
  • MultitaskingView workspace switch: MultitaskingView: Allow workspace switch animation to be interrupted #2161
  • Multitasking view open/close
  • Desktop workspace switch
• Touchpad gesture backend in gala (drop touchegg)
• Overshoot gestures #2164

Bug Fixes:

• Fix cancelling gesture in multitasking view #2149
• Fix cancelling workspace switch gesture #2148
• Multitasking View. Wingpanel shows for brief moment if a fullscreen wokspace is selected after coming from a wokspace that shows the wingpanel. #544

Regressions:

• Horizontal swipe to switch workspace no longer follows natural scrolling setting #2399

[lenemter]

Since we're rewriting our gestures system it would be really nice to consider allowing 'gesture progress' be more than 100 (#1057) or be negative (#1140). This would allow us to have more responsive gestures. But I'm not sure how this can be implemented.

[leolost2605]

Yeah that's a good idea I didn't even think about. I'm planning to split out some commits regarding giving more info to gestures from #2096. I think I can add some stuff there that would allow us to implement this pretty easily.