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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
What arror are you talking about? The only arrow is the arrow that shows when you hover over the margins with the mouse, and that isnt visible ona touch screen except during an actual tap. And tapping on the left third of the screen always turns the page back. And tapping on the bottom has no special behavior, if your bottom tap is on the margin nothing happens, if it is in the text then it turns the page left or right depending on if it is the left or right.
And why should mouse and tap have the same behavior? They are different input devices with different semantics. With a mouse ou can show the controls by right click, anywhere. Taps dont have a right click.
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yes I am referring to the little triangle. it appears whenever the cursor moves into the margin whether tap a is happening or not. I only mentioned it to help diffentiate the different areas of screen that inexplicably have different responses. On my device tapping on the bottom moves the text forward. tapping on left bottom screen left of arrow moves back, inside of arrow forward. But, this repeating what I have already mentioned a couple of times.
Why should the mouse and tap have the same behavior? Because we are simple human users, who aren't analyzing the technical underpinning of the input devices before we act. Every other use of a tap or mouse click in any other software that comes to my mind, is the same. It isn't different for a click or a tap depending on what part of screen one is on, because "the semantics are different"
You have been involved in development of Calibre from the beginning. It has morphed over time, as one expects. Many of the current users are likely programmers, and have also been on board for quite a while. The technical explanations may be correct, but this doesn't mean that they reflect a good user interface, one that anyone other than those intimately familiar with the development intricacies will find easy to use.
User comments about things that don't make sense to them, or that they have difficulties with, are clues about what operations could be made clearer, easier to use, less confusing. My impression is that you want to maintain Calibre for a restricted group, who take joy in the esoteric intricacies.