Yesn’t. Material Design 1 and 2 guidelines have a bunch of sections regarding interaction, way more than M3 (although M3 guidelines aren’t “finished” yet), but they lack a section regarding that gesture in particular.
Like, M1 guidelines mention swiping on content to swap tabs, heck, you can even find the same on the current Material Design 3 guidelines
fair enough. although in that specific example you could construe that as a warning of unforeseen conflicts, rather than a recommendation to implement swipe gestures. like, it doesn't say "use swipe gestures for navigating between tabs", it just mentions it as though it's something the dev should already know (in the m1 guidelines, not m3 i guess)
I think it was a conscious design decision from the Material Design team to not use that gesture in particular? Because it isn’t due to conflict with other components, in the tab guidelines they call attention to be careful when the content itself is swipeable.
possibly? although i still maintain it's likely that they saw it as part of holo, so there was no need to respecify it for md^?^ the same that they don't specify that you can scroll down to move the content field^?^ especially as all of google's own apps supported that gesture
I mean, you already can’t have certain gestures with other gestures. Like you can’t (or shouldn’t) have swipe on a card to upvote at the same time you have swipe content to change tabs.
yes; but my point is that it reduces the available actions for no discernible benefit. it's not like they've added some spare buttons in the old place, like maybe bringing back the old universal menu button.
I’d argue this restriction is better for the user because with discord’s implementation it is very clear what the trigger area is, because the entire view is the trigger area.
maybe? i'm not sure about that though, as the hamburger button is on that side, and the drawer appears there; and i'd say "the edge from whence the drawer appears" is a lot clearer than "just any old fucking where", but maybe that's me