I find gesture based navigation (in the OS, not the app) to be pretty awful. My phone is therefore set to use 3 button navigation.

Mostly this works okay in Connect, but every once in a while I find something inaccessible - possibly even not visible - because the 3 buttons cover the interface elements.

A recent example I encountered was trying to export / import settings when switching between phones. I found how to do so in Connect settings, but had difficulty completing the process because both the “export” and “import” buttons were behind my system buttons and not very visible. I had to change my OS settings to even be able to access them after I found them.

Even more recently, which is to say today, I was trying to navigate through a video (which seems an iffy process anyway) and was unable to do so because the progress bar was, again, under my system buttons.

  • kuro@lemmy.caM
    2·
    19 days ago

    Hi, thanks for the report. I mostly use gesture navigation so three button navigation is fairly untested to be honest. That said I just released v339 on beta which should fix the issues you were seeing. There’s also Settings: Edge-to-edge display if you want more safe area on the top and bottom.

    Cheers!

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
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      20 days ago

      I’ve been trying to figure out a way to say this without sounding obnoxious, but haven’t thought of one, so hopefully you won’t think too poorly of me for this response …

      … I genuinely don’t understand how one can want to use gestures over basically any other method of interacting with the OS.

      I don’t think I’m in the minority regarding this, so hopefully the devs see this post and make an adjustment.

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        No worries, friend!

        I used the three button system for a few years, but I think my phone got too big to comfortably reach the correct button every time. Right now, the Back button in Connect is more than two inches farther than my thumb can reach without having to juggle the phone. The swipe up home, swipe arc to “alt+tab”, and swipe from edge to go back were easy transitions for me. I have used mouse gestures in my browsers for decades, and with limited plugin success in other apps/desktops. I prefer a swipe keyboard on mobile.

        The buttons feel old-fashioned to me now, and when I see people use them I assume they aren’t aware that they have a choice. I do use a third party launcher (Nova, but prevented from updating since they got bought) because I hated and therefore only briefly used the google launcher. Maybe my gestures are better/different than stock. I don’t recall.

        I can swipe up or down on app shortcuts to open different apps or open menus or pull down the notifications. I can swipe on open space in different directions to open different settings menus. Nova lets me search, map, share, print, call, message, and more with a variety of configurable gestures.

        It’s been very comfortable for me!

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          20 days ago

          To each their own - I’m glad you found what works for you. I use Lawnchair now but last time I tried gestures it was on Nova, so probably we would have had the same gestures.

          Hope you have a great day!

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    The onky controls my navigation buttons cover is the share/download/etc buttons that appear when you click on an image and swipe up to bring up the panel.

    And yes, it is super annoying. I can’t even seem to 100% disable swipe actions. I do not want to swipe to do a god damn thing other than move the page up or down. Tired of accidentally saving or voting on things becsuse I didn’t move my finger vertically enough and it registered as a left or right swipe.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      20 days ago

      I dislike how if I swipe on a large image to see the bottom of it, it simply closes the image unless zoomed in.

      It’s not all that arduous, but has annoyed me a few times.

      I generally like Connect, though. It’s certainly my favorite client that I’ve tried so far.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        I dislike how if I swipe on a large image to see the bottom of it, it simply closes the image unless zoomed in.

        It’s not all that arduous, but has annoyed me a few times.

        Oh yeah. That one bugs me, too. Simply tapping the pic closes it, and sometimes trying to zoom in on it just registers a tap and closes the damn thing. 😮‍💨

        Also: I just encountered a NEW bug trying to reply to this direftly from my inbox. Hitting the reply button tried to EDIT YOUR COMMENT instead of replying to it, so when I hit send it would give an error saying I do not have permission to edit the comment 🤣 Had to click into the actual thread to reply.