Implement a force touchscreen disable/override UI option in Emby web

[Chiefmas 40]

Hi,

I find that the web client is often unusable if you have a touchscreen device and use a Chromium based browser. Autodetection of a touch interface causes Emby to load the touch interface. Chromium sees a touch interface, and even if the screen it is attached to is not enabled, it will still present as touch capable. So if you are using an external monitor, TV shows with many seasons become a pain to navigate, as you cannot horizontally scroll, as the nav carrots won't appear.

It's highly unlikely I'll be able to get the Chromium project to put a method in to disable presentation of a touch interface. I've already tried using the experimental options for disabling Touch UI Layout, this doesn't actually seem to turn off reporting of touch capability.

Thanks!

 

[GrimReaper 4740]

What is your setting under Display mode in app settings? Have you tried switching from Auto to Desktop, see how does that compare? 

[GrimReaper 4740]

15 minutes ago, Chiefmas said:

TV shows with many seasons become a pain to navigate, as you cannot horizontally scroll, as the nav carrots won't appear.

You can somewhat mitigate that with custom CSS:

div.childrenSection div.scrollSlider {
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}

 

[Chiefmas 40]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

What is your setting under Display mode in app settings? Have you tried switching from Auto to Desktop, see how does that compare? 

No change with that, the problem isn't really the display mode, it's that Emby chooses the interface based on what the browser capabilities report. You can't force Chromium not to indicate a touch display, so the touch UI always loads, and stops displaying clickable elements.

[Chiefmas 40]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

You can somewhat mitigate that with custom CSS

I can give that a try, but wouldn't that cause it to always display even when I'm actually on a touch display? The issue is more one of I'm getting a UI that doesn't work in the situation. It's not really Emby's fault, and it really shouldn't be their problem to address in a perfect world, but I probably won't have much luck getting Chromium to do anything about it any time soon. And really, it's the only place I have the issue- Plex doesn't have the issue because they don't try and get so fancy with their UI. The sliding season selection is neat, right up until it's not- I usually end up flipping over to Firefox when I run into it, but it's kind of an annoying thing to have to do.

 

[GrimReaper 4740]

2 minutes ago, Chiefmas said:

I can give that a try, but wouldn't that cause it to always display even when I'm actually on a touch display?

It would, but as far as I am concerned that's preferred display anyway, wrapped seasons, without unnecessary clicking/sliding. Was just suggesting temporary workaround until/if your issue ever gets solved.