Swipe to delete [webOS 3.x update] 5
This tip is only for devices running webOS 3.0 and higher
When webOS 1.0 was released, swipe-to-delete was an extremely important "gesture" that you needed to know in order to properly navigate the OS. How else were you going to delete items from a list? While webOS 3.0 on the TouchPad added in the ability for mulit-select (for example, to delete multiple emails), swipe-to-delete still plays an important role on many apps on the TouchPad (it even still works in the email app).
However, there is one BIG difference in how swipe-to-delete works in apps coded in Enyo on webOS 3.0. Unlike in earlier iterations of webOS, you can no longer auto-confirm a deletion by swiping off another item. Instead of the previous item being deleted, nothing happens. That previous item just returns back to its status prior to swiping it off the screen. So, you now need to press "Delete" for each item to delete.
Note: App coded in Mojo--even full screen Mojo apps--will still support auto-confirm for deletion on the TouchPad. It's only Enyo apps that do not.
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wait what? Did I miss an update or something? I'm swiping to delete my emails as we speak. No confirmation needed at all, they just automatically delete. This article confuses me :-(
You sure about that, rookie? Unfortunately, mine works as described in the article. Not sure why they crippled that as it was a very nifty and time-saving feature.
Yes i'm very sure, I do it every day. I just now did it again doing to email in a row back to back and I don't have any confirmation, they just delete.
I did whoever use my palm or should I say WebOS profile from my Pre- to do the initial setup of the TouchPad if that has anything to do with anything.
I actually don't want the confirmation lol.
There is a pref for whether you get confirmation of swiping to delete, and I believe this preference comes along for the ride if you used a pre-3.0 profile to set up your touchpad. One of you has this set one way, the other not.
The difference they are pointing out is in mojo, swiping to delete a second item would auto-confirm the previous item's swipe if you had confirmation turned on. This was deemed ultimately both somewhat confusing, and an unnecessary accelerator given the presence in 3.0 of multi-select to handle lots of deletion via a single set of actions.
Ah I do see the preference in the settings to turn it on if I wanted the confirmation. This article still confused me though lol.
I do have a glitch however which bugs me, while I have one email selected and currently reading and decide I want to delete one in the list, once deleted the stupd thing jumps to another random email instead of staying on the one I had selected. Never used to do it and now I cant figure out how to get it back to not doing that.