[Feature request]: Soft Keyboard shortcut/gesture when using Absolute/Multitouch

[bernhardberger]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Dialing up (and closing) the soft keyboard is a bit cumbersome, especially on devices without a back button (neither physical, nor soft back button like on the G Cloud).

I currently have to use the Lite Stats with the Click functionality and then scroll down to get the soft keyboard to show up.

I then have to do the same process (click the tiny Lite Stats bar and scroll down to "cancel" to hide the soft keyboard again).

However, I absolutely do not want to miss out on the comfort of Multitouch/Absolute touch.

Describe the solution you'd like

Ideally:
3 finger tap to show/hide. In the readme there's even a PR linked that kinda aims to provide that functionality.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No idea tbh. Double clicking the select button maybe?

Screenshots

No response

[ClassicOldSong]

You can bring up the menu by tap, release then hold the Select button for a while.

Usually you can swipe from the edge of your screen to trigger a soft back on most recent Android devices.

[bernhardberger]

The G Cloud launcher (and I think the Abxylute One, too) hide the soft buttons / disable the gesture navigation and don't have physical back buttons.

But even on other touch devices, it's a bit painful to navigate through Windows (even the login screen), always having to go through the menus for showing and then again hiding the soft keyboard.

Is there any possibility to make the 3-finger tap working with absolute/multitouch (or maybe some button combination like the Steam Overlay, for example, that uses Guide+X in games to bring up the steam overlay keyboard)?

[ClassicOldSong]

That's what I'm avoiding actually.

Each layer adds some sort of button combos to intercept user input for their own functions, and in the end it's becoming super fragmented and is very likely to conflict.

I don't find multi touch useful unless you're playing some games originally designed for multi touch devices(but in this case controllers are useless), otherwise trackpad mode works the best even on larger screens.