While in contrast others (including me) are running this modification for 9 months on a daily basis as this was part of phosh-next since quite some time (make nav-bar small and add long press gesture for OSK keyboard (!1206) · Merge requests · World / Phosh / phosh · GitLab) and I came quite to like it. The additional screen space (including additional space in the overview) is quiet a win and the long press is hardly ever used. I find it even a bit easier to hit than the button and it has immediate visual feedback via a CSS animation while before I found myself hitting the old osk button and wonder: “did I hit it” when nothing happened making it in face slower than long press in those situations.
Also note the Draft: Use drag-surface (!27) · Merge requests · Guido Günther / phosh-osk-stub · GitLab to swipe close the OSK. There’s also some things we want to address (e.g. the distance to reach the button on tablets is quite long) as follow ups. We don’t want to pick gestures or buttons that interfere with app switching though (Draft: Implement powerbar app switching (!1341) · Merge requests · World / Phosh / phosh · GitLab)
It was never targeted for 0.34.0, see:
My plan is to merge this right after the 0.34.0 release (if nothing else pops up).
Hope this gives some what of a wider picture that makes this change look more in place.
