Hey, so I know you can tap on a dock icon to launch the app, but when the dock is more than full and requires scrolling to shift the icons, this still cannot be done with the touch screen, based on docks I have tested. I tried the built in docks in Gnome on Pop, Ubuntu, and also Plank. None respond to an attempted drag via the touch screen.
Are there any less widely known ones that do? Are there any plans to bring this functionality to the dock in Gnome?
There are touchscreen extensions for Gnome specifically, but maybe there is something in gnome-tweaks that changes dock behavior that will work for you.
There are also different default dock setups that differ by distro, so may be helpful to know what you are working with. Example: Ubuntu has dock enabled by default, but Fedora does not.
For touchscreen in Fedora, I just hit the top-left to open all apps like on a phone, then scroll through from there. Everything works as expected with touch.
Ok so your reply literally reads like an AI bot. No offense. I’m aware there are different dock setups - I never asked about that. You said maybe helpful to know what I’m working with - well I said pop and Ubuntu. This limitation has come up on numerous devices so it’s not device that’s the issue. Touch screen works fine it’s just the coding of the dock that treats it a certain way.
The problem is I want to slide the dock content when it takes up more than the length of the dock. Using mouse wheel / touchpad scroll works. That’s the way docks designed. But it doesn’t seem to consider touch screen dragging as scrolling for the purpose of this.
I was pretty clear in my post so I’m not sure why you even replied. I mean, I appreciate any help but that wasn’t just not helpful it was not even addressing my question.
Also, gnome-extensions is outdated and I’ve had crashes on the latest gnome version. I don’t think the extensions plugin been updated in quite some time.
Hey, buddy. Advice is free. Not a bot, but if you’re not knowledgeable about your particular issue to recognize that my response is obviously not AI, you need to do more research. Just telling you my knowledge and experience for free, buddy.
You “answered” by giving me parenthetical information and not actually even addressing the specific thing I asked. I just don’t understand why you’d bother doing that. Advice is free? Yeah it would be but that’s not what you did. You just said some things and ignored the very specific issue I’m having.
I can appreciate if someone tried to help but could not, but what you told me has nothing to do with my issue.
Also, I said no offense and I genuinely meant it. No need for name calling. This isn’t an attack it’s just I’m very confused by you.
Also just want to clarify that “pop and Ubuntu” are two wildly different things. Not sure why you thought they were similar.
Does double tap and drag work?
Meaning: tap, lift, tap without lifting, drag.
Sorry. If there is a keyboard key or other input event to scroll it, you could set a touchscreen gesture to emulate that input?
