TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation
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@mib2berlin
Yes, I work on a laptop a lot. And while the alt gestures and rocker gestures work, they aren't that great for laptop users that use the touchpad a lot. I use it alot because Windows's touchpad gesutres have greatly improved recently and I like it's power, but when I use Vivaldi, the touchpad falls short of Chrome or Edge. And I think it could be hacked and I've used the Swipe Gestures extension that says it adds OSX style gestures to chrome in windows, but it's clunky and not pretty at all.It'd be great to have an actual animation that makes it clear you are navigating back and forth, much like Edge or Chrome's animation that makes this clear.
Anyway, thought it'd be a good addition.
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I agree. I've been using Edge and Brave and both have great support for swiping "back" with two fingers. It's a feature that's hard to forgo once you're used to it. Brave gets this ability from Chromium, and it really needs to come to Vivaldi too.
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Let me also say that in addition to back/forward navigation using two-finger touchpad gestures, Vivaldi also needs to implement smooth zoom in/out with touchpad pinch. Vivaldi lags behind other browsers (Edge, Chrome) in touchpad gesture support. Would love to see improvement in this area! For this reason, I have a harder time switching to Vivaldi when using a laptop. (Btw, this puzzles me, because this function seems to be part of Chromium--hence Brave has very good touchpad gesture support. So why hasn't Vivaldi gotten it "automatically"? I'm no developer so I guess I just don't understand how it all works.)
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@altcode You're saying that on a MacBook, for example, you can already navigate back by swiping the touchpad?
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@fuller1754 Pretty much. This has been possible in macOS since before version 1.0 of Vivaldi.
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After looking more, there is a flag called #overscroll-history-navigation, but it doesn't do anything or change anything.
Could this be officially supported anytime soon? It'd be right in line with Vivaldi's catering toward powerusers. It's just that some powerusers sometimes need to use laptops, and it'd be nice to have support for those.
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This function works exactly as described in Chrome. Not sure how and why this was lost along the way...
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Wow, a year later and here we are, still no support for such a simple function that was already in Chromium
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If you're at it, also add a 3-finger-gesture that lets you switch between tabs.
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@jnss98b said in TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
Wow, a year later and here we are, still no support for such a simple function that was already in Chromium
I also absolutely cannot understand that such a basic function is still not supported in Vivaldi.
That's the main reason why I don't use the browser at the moment and still have Chrome in use.
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Now a few months have passed again, has anything changed in the meantime, or is support for this basic function also in Vivaldi planned for the near future?
I really think it's a pity, because this lack of support is not only preventing me from using Vivaldi on my laptop.
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There must be a workaround to this, can someone share it?
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Vivaldi Team - statement plz? Vivaldi is such a good browser, but why ist this basic feature missing in 2020?
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@weissi29 With nearly 2,800 feature requests, and a small team, those needed by few users or difficult to implement may have to wait for a long time. Wherever you see that a feature is tagged as In Progress, it may get done this year rather than next.
The low number of votes for the feature request is probably not the reason why it is not even tagged as Pipeline, let alone In Progress. It is probably because it takes a lot of work to fix. The developers are surely aware of the issue. They rarely reply here. Maybe one of the insiders like @Gwen-Dragon or @Ayespy will have some knowledge that I do not.
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@Pesala thx for your reply
please don't see it as a reproach, I was just puzzled about the lack of this feature (as it is requested for a long time)is this feature not implemented/supported in Chromium itself? Chrome, Edge, Brave,... -> all are supporting the same touchpad behaviour.
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@weissi29 They all have the same kind of UI, and Vivaldi does not. Vivaldi's UI is built completely separate from the rendering engine and the OS, and so everything negotiated by the UI (such as touch gestures) must be written from scratch by Vivaldi devs. The unique UI is the reason Vivaldi is able to have its feature set.
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I am also missing this feature so much.
Going back and forth in history just with 2-finger swipe is crucial and every other browser has it.
Really how difficult it is to implement? You already have a gesture system in place.
This can be done in js with a 1-liner and a simple coordinates system by using Touchy :if (finger1Start < finger1End && finger2Start < finger2End) History.back(); -
@chriscochrun Amazing that Vivaldi still does not support that? I would consider it to be top priority, if not # 1 priority. Vivaldi Devs, please forget everything that you have, drop everything and put everyone on this tiny feature, but most important feature.
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@CSPGQQT said in TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
I would consider it to be top priority, if not # 1 priority.
You and (maybe) 25 other people. It's not even close to being in the top 100 outstanding most requested features. We all have our own personal pet features that we think are crucial, but no matter how much we individually want something that doesn't equal widespread demand. I too have my own features I wish Vivaldi would "drop everything" and implement for me.
@lucaspon said in TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
There must be a workaround to this, can someone share it?
Configure "History Back" to your preference in:
vivaldi://settings/mouse/Not exactly the same, but a workaround.
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@BoneTone said in TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
@CSPGQQT said in TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:
I would consider it to be top priority, if not # 1 priority.
You and (maybe) 25 other people. It's not even close to being in the top 100 outstanding most requested features.
I have run across this issue several times and it took a decent amount of searching to find this specific thread, so I don't think that number is a fair representation.
Secondly, this is now core functionality. Like the back button on your mouse or the scroll wheel on your mouse not working. If most people don't report it, it is still core functionality that drives everyone crazy that is expecting it to function. More and more Windows laptops are being sold now with large functional touchpads where tiny ones were used in the past. No one would have done swipe gestures on crappy tiny touchpads of days past. But now we have large highly sensitive touchpads where this functionality has become commonplace. Expect to see this feature demanded more as people upgrade their laptops.
