it's easy for the back button to trigger a leftpanel reveal

[ara4n]

empirically, i keep triggering the leftpanel when tapping the back button. i think that if there's horizontal component to the tap, it gets interpretted as a swipe. can we disable/intercept the swipe on the back button and have it treated as a normal tap?

[ShadowJonathan]

I'd rather have it so that a swipe is only "accepted" once the finger leaves the interaction area of the back button, i can see some interaction principles being broken if swiping is disabled entirely on and around the area of the back button, creating confusion for those not in the know.

[ara4n]

If you only accepted the swipe when you swipe out of the backbutton area, you'd still have the problem that hitting the backbutton wouldn't do anything (other than move the screen slightly to the right and back again). I strongly suspect nobody tries to swipe at the top left where the backbutton is, and we should just disable the swiping there.

I hit this roughly 30% of the time i try to use the backbutton (i.e. my attempt to hit the backbutton is incorrectly seen as a swipe).