fix(web): mostly vertical trackpad scrolls no longer navigate back or forward#30173

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Problem

On desktop, a mostly vertical two-finger trackpad scroll can navigate back or forward. If the first ~8px of the scroll lean sideways (e.g. 5px x / 3px y), HistorySwipeNavigation locks onto the horizontal axis. After that it ignores deltaY, so the small sideways drift of a long vertical scroll adds up to the 120px trigger, and releasing the scroll (or its momentum) navigates. Reproduced on main cefb544af3 in the desktop app: a scroll 15° off vertical navigates back, also without momentum, and the mirrored scroll navigates forward.

Change

The gesture now counts total horizontal and vertical travel. Once it has moved 30px, horizontal travel must stay more than twice the vertical travel. If it doesn't, the gesture is dropped: the indicator hides, nothing navigates, and the rest of the gesture is ignored as before. The same check applies when the axis locks, so one large diagonal event cannot lock and navigate. Below 30px the direction is still noise, so swipes whose first events lean diagonally still navigate.

Scope and approval

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#30160

Verification

vp test run apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.browser.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.test.ts: 17 passed. New cases:
- a vertical scroll that starts slightly diagonally keeps the thread: fails on main (navigateHistory called with "back"), passes here.
- a swipe that turns into a vertical scroll keeps the thread: fails on main, passes here.
- a swipe whose first events lean diagonally navigates and a swipe that leans diagonally for two events navigates: pass on main and here (guard real swipes with a diagonal start).
- a single diagonal event past the trigger keeps the thread: fails on main, passes here.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and React compiler all pass.
Desktop app (vp run dev:desktop on Linux/Xvfb, fresh database, back history #/new → #/pull-requests). A driver over CDP replayed each gesture as one latched sequence of wheel events over the main content. CDP mouse-wheel input gets its own Chromium gesture per event, so the driver sends one CDP wheel to fire the gesture begin/end reset and then dispatches the sequence in the page. Same driver on both sides:

Gesture (replayed wheel deltas)	Totals	Before `cefb544af3`	After `3f9b2380e4`
reporter: diagonal start (5x/3y), vertical scroll with slight leftward drift, momentum	dx=-148 dy=539 (15° off vertical)	navigated	stayed
variant: same scroll, gesture ends when the fingers lift (no momentum)	dx=-125 dy=453 (15° off vertical)	navigated	stayed
variant: rightward drift with forward history	dx=148 dy=539 (15° off vertical)	navigated	stayed
variant: diagonal start, then perfectly vertical	dx=-5 dy=539 (1° off vertical)	stayed	stayed
swipe whose first events lean diagonally	dx=-186 dy=-3 (89° off vertical)	navigated	navigated
swipe that leans diagonally for two events	dx=-157 dy=5 (88° off vertical)	navigated	navigated
swipe that turns into a vertical scroll	dx=-153 dy=536 (16° off vertical)	navigated	stayed
swipe 18° off horizontal	dx=-180 dy=60 (72° off vertical)	navigated	navigated
swipe 34° off horizontal	dx=-180 dy=120 (56° off vertical)	navigated	stayed
control: clearly horizontal swipe	dx=-180 dy=15 (85° off vertical)	navigated	navigated

Replay driver (not committed)

1	// Repro driver for pingdotgg/t3code#30160 against the running desktop app (CDP on :9342).
2	// CDP mouseWheel events each get their own Chromium gesture (begin/end around every event), so the
3	// latched trackpad gesture is replayed as in-page wheel events over the settings content instead.
4	// Usage: node repro.mjs <dir that resolves playwright> <output dir>
5	import { createRequire } from "node:module";
6	import { mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
7
8	const require = createRequire(process.argv[2] + "/");
9	const { chromium } = require("playwright");
10	const outDir = process.argv[3];
11	mkdirSync(outDir, { recursive: true });
12
13	const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP("http://localhost:9342");
14	const page = browser
15	.contexts()
16	.flatMap((c) => c.pages())
17	.find((p) => p.url().startsWith("t3code-dev://app"));
18	const log = [];
19	const note = (line) => {
20	log.push(line);
21	console.log(line);
22	};
23
24	// Wheel deltas as the DOM sees them (natural scrolling already applied).
25	const vertical = (n, drift) => Array.from({ length: n }, () => [drift, 15]);
26	const momentum = (drift) =>
27	Array.from({ length: 12 }, (_, k) => [drift * 0.85 ** k, 15 * 0.85 ** k]);
28	const scenarios = [
29	{
30	name: "reporter: diagonal start (5x/3y), vertical scroll with slight leftward drift, momentum",
31	events: [[-5, 3], ...vertical(30, -4), ...momentum(-4)],
32	},
33	{
34	name: "variant: same scroll, gesture ends when the fingers lift (no momentum)",
35	events: [[-5, 3], ...vertical(30, -4), [0, 0]],
36	},
37	{
38	name: "variant: rightward drift with forward history",
39	forward: true,
40	events: [[5, 3], ...vertical(30, 4), ...momentum(4)],
41	},
42	{
43	name: "variant: diagonal start, then perfectly vertical",
44	events: [[-5, 3], ...vertical(30, 0), ...momentum(0)],
45	},
46	{
47	name: "swipe whose first events lean diagonally",
48	events: [[-1, -1], [-2, -1], [-3, -1], ...Array.from({ length: 15 }, () => [-12, 0]), [0, 0]],
49	},
50	{
51	name: "swipe that leans diagonally for two events",
52	events: [[-5, 3], [-2, 2], ...Array.from({ length: 15 }, () => [-10, 0]), [0, 0]],
53	},
54	{
55	name: "swipe that turns into a vertical scroll",
56	events: [[-10, 0], ...vertical(30, -4), ...momentum(-4)],
57	},
58	{
59	name: "swipe 18° off horizontal",
60	events: [...Array.from({ length: 15 }, () => [-12, 4]), [0, 0]],
61	},
62	{
63	name: "swipe 34° off horizontal",
64	events: [...Array.from({ length: 15 }, () => [-12, 8]), [0, 0]],
65	},
66	{
67	name: "control: clearly horizontal swipe",
68	events: [...Array.from({ length: 15 }, () => [-12, 1]), [0, 0]],
69	},
70	];
71
72	async function go(hash) {
73	await page.evaluate((h) => (location.hash = h), hash);
74	await page.waitForTimeout(700);
75	}
76
77	for (const [index, scenario] of scenarios.entries()) {
78	await go("#/new");
79	await go("#/pull-requests");
80	if (scenario.forward) {
81	await page.goBack();
82	await page.waitForTimeout(700);
83	}
84	// A real trackpad gesture starts with Chromium's gestureScrollBegin/End, which resets the
85	// component's per-gesture state; one tiny CDP wheel does that before the latched sequence.
86	const cdp = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
87	await cdp.send("Input.dispatchMouseEvent", { type: "mouseWheel", x: 700, y: 400, deltaX: 0, deltaY: 1 });
88	await page.waitForTimeout(300);
89	const before = page.url();
90	const history = await page.evaluate(() => ({
91	back: navigation.canGoBack,
92	forward: navigation.canGoForward,
93	}));
94	await page.screenshot({ path: `${outDir}/${index}-before.png` });
95	const sums = await page.evaluate(async (events) => {
96	const target = document.elementFromPoint(700, 400) ?? document.body;
97	if (target.closest('[role="dialog"]')) throw new Error("target is inside a dialog");
98	let x = 0;
99	let y = 0;
100	for (const [deltaX, deltaY] of events) {
101	x += deltaX;
102	y += deltaY;
103	target.dispatchEvent(
104	new WheelEvent("wheel", { deltaX, deltaY, bubbles: true, composed: true, clientX: 700, clientY: 400 }),
105	);
106	await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 8));
107	}
108	return { x: Math.round(x), y: Math.round(y) };
109	}, scenario.events);
110	await page.waitForTimeout(800);
111	const after = page.url();
112	await page.screenshot({ path: `${outDir}/${index}-after.png` });
113	note(
114	`${scenario.name}\n total dx=${sums.x} dy=${sums.y} (${Math.round(
115	(Math.atan2(Math.abs(sums.x), Math.abs(sums.y)) * 180) / Math.PI,
116	)}° off vertical); history ${JSON.stringify(history)}\n ${before} -> ${after}: ${
117	before === after ? "stayed" : "NAVIGATED"
118	}`,
119	);
120	}
121
122	writeFileSync(`${outDir}/result.txt`, log.join("\n") + "\n");
123	process.exit(0);

SwipeIndicator rendering is unchanged; what changes is how long it stays up. Sampled in the same desktop app, same replay method: a swipe that starts [-10,0] and turns into a vertical scroll (no release event). Indicator circle style after each event:

Event	Before `cefb544af3`	After `3f9b2380e4`
1 [-10,0]	opacity 1, translateX(-95.8333%)	opacity 1, translateX(-95.8333%)
2 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-94.1667%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
3 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-92.5%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
4 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-90.8333%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
5 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-89.1667%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
6 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-87.5%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
7 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-85.8333%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
8 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-84.1667%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
9 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-82.5%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
10 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-80.8333%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)
11 [-4,15]	opacity 1, translateX(-79.1667%)	opacity 0, translateX(-95.8333%)

Before, the indicator stays visible and keeps growing through the vertical scroll; after, it hides once the gesture reaches 30px of travel and the route stays.

cannot-verify wayland: not checked with a real libinput touchpad on GNOME Wayland (the reporter's setup); the events above are synthetic.
cannot-verify macos: not checked with a real macOS trackpad and its momentum/gesture bracketing.

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fix(web): mostly vertical trackpad scrolls no longer navigate back or forward03fd181
fix(web): keep diagonal-start horizontal swipes navigating0f7c19d
test(web): reproduce #30160, diagonal start of a vertical scroll navigates historya1d2568

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HistorySwipeNavigation now evaluates cumulative horizontal and vertical travel when locking and tracking gestures. It discards gestures that meet the vertical-scroll rule and hides the indicator. Browser tests check navigation outcomes for diagonal wheel-event sequences.

Changes: Swipe gesture tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and cancel diagonal gestures `apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.tsx`, `apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.browser.test.tsx`	The gesture state records cumulative horizontal and vertical travel. The component ignores gestures when total travel reaches 30 pixels and horizontal travel is no more than twice vertical travel. Browser tests cover vertical-dominant and diagonal sequences.

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Issue #30160 requires mostly vertical scrolling to avoid navigation and clearly horizontal swipes to navigate. The reviewed change summary and prior assessment support the cumulative-travel guard and its application during axis locking. The source file has no incremental changes since the previous review. The current test diff removes the named case for a swipe that turns into a vertical scroll. The available current test summary does not establish equivalent coverage for cancellation after tracking starts.

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apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.tsxlines 141–143Outdated · 0f7c19dOpen thread

…	…	@@ -130,6 +136,12 @@ export function HistorySwipeNavigation() {
	140	+	gesture.travelY += Math.abs(event.deltaY);
	141	+	if (gesture.travelX <= SWIPE_HORIZONTAL_DOMINANCE * gesture.travelY) {
	142	+	gesture = { kind: "ignored" };
	143	+	return hideIndicator();

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Allow a diagonal start to become horizontal.

[-5, 3], [-2, 2], [-150, 0] is rejected on the second event, although the completed swipe travels 157 pixels horizontally and 5 vertically. The previous implementation navigated for this sequence. Delay cancellation until the gesture has enough movement to distinguish a diagonal start from vertical scrolling. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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✅ Addressed in commit 3f9b238

JJulius Marminge8d ago

Fixed in 3f9b2380e4: the dominance check now applies only after 30px of total travel, so a diagonal start can still become a swipe. [-5, 3], [-2, 2], [-150, 0] is now a browser test that navigates.

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apps/web/src/components/HistorySwipeNavigation.tsxlines 75–76Outdated · 0f7c19dOpen thread

…	…	@@ -68,6 +72,8 @@ function lockSwipeAxis(
69	73		distance: Math.abs(sumX),
70	74		deltas: [],
	75	+	travelX: Math.abs(sumX),
	76	+	travelY: Math.abs(sumY),

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Check dominance before releasing an axis-lock event.

A single [-130, 100] event locks the horizontal axis. A following [0, 0] releases it and navigates without checking dominance. Apply the check on release as well, and cover this sequence in the browser test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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✅ Addressed in commit 3f9b238

JJulius Marminge8d ago

Fixed in 3f9b2380e4: the same check runs when the axis locks, so a single [-130, 100] event is ignored and the following [0, 0] does not navigate. Covered by a single diagonal event past the trigger keeps the thread.

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@juliusmarminge The updated lockSwipeAxis rejects [-130, 100] before tracking begins. The following [0, 0] event cannot trigger navigation. This addresses the finding without a separate release-time check.

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fix(web): judge swipe direction only after 30px of travel3f9b238

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-3016004cc711
test(web): keep one case per swipe-direction regression99e11ec

JJulius Marminge1d ago

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.

Visit synthetic Thread A, then Thread B; expand the long notes and position the chat at scrollTop 600. Inject deltaX=-9, deltaY=3, followed by 34 packets of deltaX=-4, deltaY=22 at approximately 20 ms intervals, then pause for release. Use Back to establish forward history and repeat with mirrored positive horizontal deltas. Attempt deliberate horizontal navigation with single ±145 px wheel packets. The vertical sequences scrolled from 600 to 1351 without changing threads on either commit.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

DDara Adedeji16h ago

Please save us julius