Feature: Better Support for PopOS about gnome-gesture-improvements

[harshadgavali]

Sorry @mijorus.

Since PopOS is moving away from GNOME, extensions won't work at all in their upcoming DE.
So I don't want spend time adding temporary workarounds for their customizations.

[mijorus]

I totally understand your position @harshadgavali. I am forking this extension so that I can make it more compatible with Pop.

Could you please explain me roughly how it work?

I can see that most of the action takes place here, where you connect some gestures with the apply() method.

Am I correct?

Thanks for your time

[harshadgavali]

Hi @mijorus, gesture in gestures.ts are related to workspace.

If you just want to disable gesture to navigate app-grid, I think following change might work for you.
I tested following change on Fedora Silverblue 36 RC. It makes so that using 4 finger up/down we can only move between desktop and overview.

diff --git a/extension/src/overviewRoundTrip.ts b/extension/src/overviewRoundTrip.ts
index c68120a..8a13d76 100644
--- a/extension/src/overviewRoundTrip.ts
+++ b/extension/src/overviewRoundTrip.ts
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ export class OverviewRoundTripGestureExtension implements ISubExtension {
 	_gestureBegin(tracker: typeof SwipeTracker.prototype): void {
 		const _tracker = {
 			confirmSwipe: (distance: number, snapPoints: number[], currentProgress: number, cancelProgress: number) => {
-				snapPoints.unshift(OverviewControlsState.APP_GRID_P);
-				snapPoints.push(OverviewControlsState.HIDDEN_N);
+				snapPoints.pop();
 				tracker.confirmSwipe(
 					distance,
 					snapPoints,

But if you want something else for overview gesture. You might need to update this file (extension/src/overviewRoundTrip.ts).

PS: In case you missed there's also touchegg. that can work on non-GNOME environments.

[mijorus]

Thank you for the explanation.

Touchegg is not needed anymore, as I can use Wayland on PopOS.

Pop is still using GNOME and will problably keep using it until next year (or more, I bet that COSMIC will be postponed).