Activating buttons on mouse down seem conter-intutive

[Raza-0007]

Now that I had a chance to experienced this recently changed behavior of uosc to activate buttons on mouse down instead of a full mouse click, I thought I should open a discussion here on what others think about this change.

Developer Tomas prefers mouse down button activation, but for me this change feels counter-intuitive, as it breaks with how the other software behave on the system. All other software, other media players, including mpv without uosc, only register clicks on a full mouse click, not on mouse down. uosc's new behavior seems unexpected. I believe the only buttons that should work on mouse down should be fast forward and rewind.

Also my initial concern from this thread here about the window dragging on a border-less uosc have also come true. Now if you wish to drag mpv across the screen, you have to click exactly in the middle of the screen. Clicking anywhere close to the top or bottom of the screen will pause the video while dragging.

I hope Tomas will reconsider this change and restore uosc earlier behavior that conforms with the rest of the software ecosystem on the OS.

What do you guys think?

[tomasklaen]

I moved event handling to mousedown because people were complaining the UI feels less responsive when it's on click and requested it to be moved to down. I personally don't care either way. So I guess fight it out :)

I fixed the pause issue in bb91868.

[Raza-0007]

Tomas, thanks for fixing the pause issue so quickly, I will test it out when you next post a release.

As far as buttons working on mouse down... its not a big deal, it just breaks with the set convention of how buttons should work in software. It is counter-intuitive and unexpected. If no one complains then it is OK.

The previous UI was very responsive, I never noticed any issues with it, but if you are referring to this post here, then I am pretty sure that the OP was actually asking for just the pause/play to activate on mouse down, not the whole UI. He said that when he is in the middle of a click, the mouse accidentally moves, so the pause/play does not activate. This is why my posts in that thread were about pause/play.

Keep up the good work. I cannot imagine using mpv without uosc.