selecting text from timeline (messages) on mobile

[dozro]

Describe the bug

when i try to select text from a message in the timeline i inadvertently end up triggering the gesture control (either going back to space home, or replying)
this is less than ideal

Reproduction

No response

Expected behavior

letting one select text from timeline messages

Platform and versions

- OS: iPad
- Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
- Sable: v1.7.0 (f50de89)

Additional context

No response

[7w1]

When the mobile gesture reworks come around selecting text will likely be disabled on mobile, with instead a context menu option to select/copy text.

[dozro]

there might be a, even if not 100% reliable, way to detect if someone is selecting a text…
Would have to look into it a bit more…