[Request] Swipe left from homescreen to open the hamburger menu - eviltoast

Update:

This is an example of what I want to open the hamburger menu. https://sendvid.com/328hidfa

Original post:

Up until the latest update, pressing back from the homepage would open the hamburger menu allowing for easy access to jump to a specific community or go to your profile etc.

I agree with people that this action being caused by the “back” key was unintuitive and unexpected and much prefer the new and more obvious result of pressing back from the homepage which is to exit the app. However, there is now no longer a way to easily open the hamburger menu when browsing one-handed and this is an oversight!

I propose that a “left swipe” from the homepage opens up this menu (currently swiping left from the homepage does nothing)

    • baconeater@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Swipe navigation works everywhere except from the homescreen. I’m requesting that it work there also.

        • baconeater@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The Frontpage. Mine is my subscribed feed but if you haven’t set this as the default view then I guess it displays the local feed for the instance you are registered on.

          • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Sounds like some bugs. On my Frontpage I can do the left nav swipe action, and it doesn’t show Local unless you hit Local

      • SuperSpaceFan@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        By homepage do you mean post view? If so, swiping from left to right in post view should work to open the nav panel as long as you have swipe navigation enabled.

        • baconeater@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          By homepage I mean Frontpage (the screen with all the posts that loads when you open the app). Swiping from left to right from a post itself takes you back to the Frontpage but swiping from left to right from the Frontpage does nothing (this is what I want to open the hamburger menu). I have swipe navigation enabled and use it to navigate throughout the rest of the app. There is currently no way to open the hamburger menu via a swipe action from the Frontpage (you have to tap the 3 lines at the top of the screen which is not easy to do with 1 hand)

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The hamburger button is on the left side. How would you swipe left to open it?

    And it does open it already. Really not sure what you’re trying to say here.

    • baconeater@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I guess what I am calling a “left swipe” is a swipe from the left to the right. Such as takes you one step back from a post to the Frontpage. I am requesting that a left to right swipe from the Frontpage open up the hamburger menu on the left side.