I totally agree that the Launcher edge alignment should be user configurable but with the Ubuntu icon (and Dash) on the top left, I don't see how it can be possible. Please see my proposal which makes this very possible: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg06309.html
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody! I've said many times that the AppLauncher position needs to be > configurable. In it's current implementation it only aligns to the left side > of the screen edge. This is probably because most western languages read > from left to right and it saves a lot of vertical space on widescreen > monitors. > > Unity is designed to be a space saving environment but when a user uses a > different screen rotation (vertical instead of horizontal - many people work > like this when working with LO Calc or MS Excel) a ~ 60px wide vertical bar, > taking sometimes up to more than 1920px vertical space, steals valuable > horizontal space. If Unity really wants to be as versatile as Canonical are > aiming for it needs to be able to adapt. Take for example this demo with a > tablet running Ubuntu 11.04: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nHbRspykIQ > There you can see how much space it actually waste. If it were able to > automatically adapt depending on screen orientation or by manual > configuration this problem wouldn't exist. I don't know if it adapts to > right-to-left languages but it should be able to as well. > A whole other question is how Canonical believes their global AppMenu can be > easily used with touch displays, it seems like it would be next to > impossible to select what you want on such a tiny space. The Elementary > Project's philosophy regarding AppMenu's is far much more suited for a touch > screen environment: > http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/ui-toolkit-elements/appmenu > Cheers! > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
