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Delay-press to start application

Open mottosso opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

Goal

Avoid accidental launch.

Motivation

At the moment, an application is launched by pressing the name. If you double-click, you'll launch two applications. Since some applications take a minute to appear running, one may accidentally click many times and cause many applications to launch all at once.

Implementation

Implement a press-and-hold type mechanism, such that you press-and-hold on your application for a second or so in order to launch it, along with some visual indicator of how long you need to press and whether you've pressed long enough.

mottosso avatar Apr 29 '17 13:04 mottosso

This might be less prone to accidentally happen with this PR: https://github.com/getavalon/launcher/pull/27

It's because the Applications slide into into position briefly before being exactly there. See:

Would that also fix it?

BigRoy avatar Jul 04 '18 21:07 BigRoy