My wish is that they implement a button which isn't a part of the AppLauncher Icon's area but still not taking up the top left corner since the window buttons are really awkwardly placed when working with a maximized window in 11.04. But without that corner it loses a lot of efficiency (Fitt's Law). Hopefully Canonical can find an alternative design which makes it possible to align the Launcher and still keep it placed good strategically :)
2011/8/22 Eylem Koca <eylemk...@gmail.com> > Well, you're still suggesting moving the Ubuntu button to the bottom > left when the Launcher is at the bottom, right? The problem with that > is that it disturbs the overall consistency of the desktop. I mean, > the Ubuntu button and the Dash are (should be) central to Unity > desktop and moving them around would diminish their role. With the > current design, their role is already reduced to a "just another > Launcher widget", similar to KDE. That's why I posted that proposal, > so that they're really emphasized as they should be... > > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist > <niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wouldn't it work anyway since the BUB is now inside the AppLauncher area? > > All corners are a great position according to Fitt's Law so there's no > need > > to move the position of the BUB relative to the rest of the launcher - > and > > the Dash would ofcourse unflod accordingly. > > > > 2011/8/22 Eylem Koca <eylemk...@gmail.com> > >> > >> 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 > > > > >
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