jamulussoftware
Add equivalent of "hover" for touch displays
What is the current behaviour and why should it be changed?
On desktop builds, hovering the mouse over the channel user displays their profile details in a tool tip:
As no "hover" action is available for touch displays (e.g. Android), this feature is unavailable.
Describe possible approaches
A single tap or, probably better, long-hold could be used to display tool tips in general. (Long-hold would avoid misinterpretation of single tap on a checkbox or menu, etc.)
I'm guessing touch screens also are missing right-click "What's this?" support. Possibly that could be implemented as above, with "Show musician profile" as an extra option where applicable.
Other trigger actions could be double tap or two-finger tap. Long-hold is prefered, I think.
Has this feature been discussed and generally agreed?
Only with my partner, who raised it.
OK https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtapandholdgesture.html has been around since qt4.8 or earlier, so it looks like gesture support is pretty solid. ~I propose to update any object supporting "What's this?" with an additional trigger of tap-hold and, for the musician profile, to add that to the tap-hold menu.~
Edit: So editing the default Shift-F1 / right-click / help menu behaviour is "not simple"; neither is routing tap-hold to hover (as it's tap-hold finished). For now, I'll just add tap-hold to the one component.
Edit2: Ugh... and gestures use QWidget::event() rather than sending a signal!
Edit3: Oh dear... https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/moc.html#multiple-inheritance-requires-qobject-to-be-first so overriding event() has to be done explicitly per class and can't reuse code (either to convert the event to a signal or to handle the event).
Well, that didn't work. Doesn't appear to have broken the Windows build but long hold did nothing... I'll have to investigate further.
I'm going to de-assign myself from this: my Android-foo hasn't got me any progress on it so far.