This handy feature has been promised to ChromeOS users for a while now - but its still stuck in development

Date:
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:41:08 +0000

Description:
The new trackpad gesture feature in ChomeOS has been rolling out for over a month now - but it looks like users can only use it in the Dev Channel.

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ChromeOS users have been promised a new trackpad gesture feature thatll make dismissing pop-up notifications a breeze - but were yet to see it actually appear on any Chromebooks. Instead, some demo users have stumbled upon the feature in Googles Developer Channel - a full month later.



The new controls were technically introduced to ChromeOS in February, due to be rolled out over the coming days according to the official blog post . However, it seems the feature is still trapped in development limbo. Robby Payne from ChromeUnboxed laments how common it seems to be for new features
to be announced for ChromeOS only for a few specific features to be
completely left out until the next update.

It seems like that might be the case with the gesture feature. An entirely
new ChromeOS 122 update was introduced at the start of March with no mention of the gesture control, implying either that the feature has already been rolled out or entirely forgotten about. Doing it in parts

Payne notes that while he had no success trying to use the feature on different Chromebooks, it wasnt until he was doing something else in the ChromeOS Development Channel and decided to try the gesture when a pop-up notification appeared - it worked!

While it may seem like just a small thing to be concerned about, the gesture control still being locked away in the Dev Channel is a good example of ChromeOS developers leaving users hanging after promising new features.

The new feature is intuitive and super useful in the day-to-day and the fact that it seems to be another example of ChromeOS users having to just hope and wait for parts of their updates to actually roll out continues to be frustrating. You might also like... Galaxy Book5 Pro leak shows Samsungs thin-and-light laptop might be powered up by an 8-core Intel Lunar Lake CPU and Battlemage GPU Google Gemini AI looks like its coming to Android tablets and could coexist with Google Assistant (for now) Bye-bye, Bard Google
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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/this-handy-feature-has-been-promise d-to-chromeos-users-for-a-while-now-but-its-still-stuck-in-development


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