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Long-click for right panel's buttons for starting a function without an additional service menu

Dmitry Lesev shared this idea ago

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Currently a long press on the buttons of the right panel opens an additional menu where there are always 2 items - "Information" and "Change panel" + sometimes a functional item.

I suggest moving these 2 mandatory items to the settings, and on long-click immediately perform the necessary actions

For some buttons where no one additional menu item available yet, long-click handler can be added also (where it makes sense, for example - Start/Stop track recording)

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Andrew Heard ●

Dmitry - your example - Start/Stop track recording - isn't currently workflow - short tap > track recording panel > Start/Stop- already as quick? I don't see any advantage.

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Dmitry Lesev ●

Hi Andrew

The advantage in this particular case - that we will have on one click less (or even on two if we want to hide track recording panel after start track). But as i sad it only for buttons where it makes sense.

The main idea was another - using long-click more effective and get rid of the menu with two items - "Information" (because if user have the function to the side panel, he definetly should find out before, how it works) and "Change Panel" (because it actually setting, and having this identical menu item for each side panel button is not effective).

Extending number of buttons where functionality by long-click is available - it's "nice to have", and can be discussed separetly for each button

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jimmyfromthepieshop ●

I vote for keeping it as is...

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Menion ●

Please guys, use positive/negative votes, they are really really useful for me, thank you!

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Andrew Heard ●

I use the existing menu items and never hide the track recording button. Good visual reminder I want to ensure icon is always red, recording.

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Dmitry Lesev ●

Could i ask, what items from the existing menu do yo use?

"never hide the track recording button" - ok, i meant case when track recording panel is displayed at the bottom when click on right-side panel's button (depends on the settings).

But in general, example with this button was just for showing intention to use long-click wilder for side buttons (where it's not realised yet), because it's easy ant fast.

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Andrew Heard ●

Modify panel, Hide all, Remove temp items. Short tap already performs default action, I'd vote for keeping long tap for menu.

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Georg D ●

Function I use in side/top/bottom menu panel (in v4, some are instead in Atlternate menu panel):

GPS/Compass, supports long tap, I've mild interest to be extended by "compass"
Points manager, supports long tap, IMHO no need for extensions
Share, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
search, does not yet support long tap but would be of high interest to me, e.g. could offer "history" which shows a scrollable list to quickly repeat last 30 searches, and "search type" to define which kind of search I want for this instance of the search icon so I could have 3 search icons (online addresses and places, location > clipboard, search in points) which avoids that I always need to tap 3-dots-menu within search window to switch back & forth all the time.
weather, IMHO no need for long tap because there is no "secondary" action / use case for me
dashboard, supports long tap, IMHO no need for extensions because all other actions are performed that seldom personally, I would trigger them more often by accident than intentionally
LoPoints (offline), IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
OSM notes, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
Navigate to, IMHO no need for long tap because there are so many possible actions the dialog is easier to use
Guide to, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
New point, IMHO no need for long tap because there are so many possible actions the dialog is easier to use
quick new point, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast and AFAIK there are no secondary actions
quick settings, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
in v4, Atlternate menu panel, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast

As you can see, IMHO only a fraction of panel buttoms has potential for secondary actions, so I'd prefer info & modify are continued to be always shown.

@Locus team: Could you please give feedback how likely you'd implement bold formatted points? 🙂

Function I use in side/top/bottom menu panel (in v4, some are instead in Atlternate menu panel):

GPS/Compass, supports long tap, I've mild interest to be extended by "compass"
Points manager, supports long tap, IMHO no need for extensions
Share, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
search, does not yet support long tap but would be of high interest to me, e.g. could offer "history" which shows a scrollable list to quickly repeat last 30 searches, and "search type" to define which kind of search I want for this instance of the search icon so I could have 3 search icons (online addresses and places, location > clipboard, search in points) which avoids that I always need to tap 3-dots-menu within search window to switch back & forth all the time.
weather, IMHO no need for long tap because there is no "secondary" action / use case for me
dashboard, supports long tap, IMHO no need for extensions because all other actions are performed that seldom personally, I would trigger them more often by accident than intentionally
LoPoints (offline), IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
OSM notes, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
Navigate to, IMHO no need for long tap because there are so many possible actions the dialog is easier to use
Guide to, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
New point, IMHO no need for long tap because there are so many possible actions the dialog is easier to use
quick new point, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast and AFAIK there are no secondary actions
quick settings, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast
in v4, Atlternate menu panel, IMHO no need for long tap because upcoming dialog is just as fast

As you can see, IMHO only a fraction of panel buttoms has potential for secondary actions, so I'd prefer info & modify are continued to be always shown.

@Locus team: Could you please give feedback how likely you'd implement bold formatted points? 🙂

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Menion ●

Hi guys,

thanks all for the feedback.

It is clear, that finding the universal solution for all is impossible here. Also, there is really a fraction of functions that directly need some faster function over long-click.

So, I'm declining this task, anyway feel free to discuss if there are any specific functions where some faster method should be useful.

@Georg D

- you already may place a compass as a button to function panel

- search will be created completely new from scratch (this year), so changing something on the current system will be waste of time.

Jiří M. aka Menion

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Georg D ●

Thanky you Menion for quick reply 🙂

I agree to declining this task.
@Compass button: Button "compass" is of little use, it only opens the compass. Button "GPS / compass" is of high use, because it shows GPS signal and can toggle GPS on/off, but despite "compass" is part of it's name, it does not directly trigger any compass action. Adding both buttons wastes 1 place in the menu and hides more of the map, compared to long press action for button "GPS / compass" which could either open the full screen dialog or to toggle on/off the mini compass (already shown in bottom left (v4) or top left (v3) when "rotate map" is on)
@search: good news 🙂 Maybe you wanna take over above idea to the re-design, maybe it does not fit.

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Menion ●

Compass > understand. Question is, what is really faster, mainly in the terrain. If "click on GPS/compass + swipe" or long click + selection. I vote for keeping as is for now.

Search > we have to a) unite options into more cleaver single search button + b) allow easily visible search results above the map. I'm looking forward to it :)

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Georg D ●

@both: 👍

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