So far you had to pull out #phosh's top and bottom bar quiet a bit to make it unfold. That's kind of o.k. on 📱 like the #Librem5 or #PinePhone but can be cumbersome on larger phones like the #OnePlus6T or tablets like the #Librem11. I've put out an MR for #phoc which adds a fling #gesture so you can also fold/unfold with a fast swipe. Here's a short video demoing this for different screen sizes:
I contributed to GNOME Shell! It's just a one-liner, but still, it's a contribution!
I added touchpad gestures so you can now change workspaces not just with a 3-finger swipe, but also a 4-finger swipe (or any amount of fingers larger than that, if you're feeling really adventurous).
Distance works in time as well as space. Frequency of contact indicates closeness, so contacting someone often can be a transgression. Rather than 'getting to know you better,' they can maintain the same distance as the circumstances when you first met. Thus, many foreigners say they can't make friends with Japanese.
Much use of silence. Large private self vs. small public self. The same act, such as posting one's photo & real name online, falls into the public #self of Westerners but the private self of Japanese.
Most Japanese are undemonstrative of emotions & affection. Standing close or touching them can easily be taken as a sexual or presumptuous invasion of their private realm.
Japanese feel personal space palpably. They make a cutting #gesture when passing someone closely.
Image: a researcher, face masked, eyes shaded by a baseball cap, carrying equipment, follows at a distance a group of wild chimpanzees in an open savanna woodland. It's not totally dry, with some green, tangled bush. She points to the crouching shape of one chimp in the middle distance.
#Gesture is a uniquely powerful tool. Here's how to make the most of it
What we have come to realise is that gestures are not mere movements. They are a special kind of thinking that is revealed through the hands. Most people so undervalue them that they often don’t realise they are gesturing. Yet the wide range of abilities that gesturing entails makes it a sort of superpower. Understand gesture and you can maximise its benefits to boost #learning and #memory