OK, sorry, I got it wrong it seems. But then, why oh why did the Ubuntu button have to leave the top left corner? If it did not look like a button, then make it like a button, not displace it. The OP includes a very good mockup for example: http://sites.google.com/site/gandreoliva/hybridbutton
I really really think that moving the Ubuntu button out of the very-top-left-corner is a huge mistake. If you really have to place the window control buttons to the very-top-left-corner, then I have a proposal. This just popped into my mind, and goes like this: - Make the Launcher cover the whole left edge, going over the top panel at the top left corner. The Ubuntu button (whatever the design) is at the top of the Launcher. - When the cursor is not directed to the top panel, the Launcher shows or hides according to normal behavior (dodge, autohide, etc). - If the Launcher is showing, the window controls on the left of the top panel are hidden, the active-app name (and title?) is displayed on the top panel (starting from where the window controls would end) and the appmenu is hidden. --- While the Launcher is showing, IF THE CURSOR HITS THE TOP PANEL BEFORE IT HITS THE LAUNCHER, then the Launcher hides, the window controls and the appmenu is displayed on the top panel and the user can interact. --- While the Launcher is showing, the user can activate Dash by either clicking on the Ubuntu button or by pushing the cursor to top left corner (second part should be a user configurable option). - If the Launcher is somehow hidden, and the cursor is NOT on the top panel, the window controls are replaced by an Ubuntu logo (monochrome ala 11.04), followed (towards right) by the active-app name (and title?). Note: this Ubuntu logo is not clickable. --- While the Launcher is hidden, IF THE CURSOR FIRST HITS THE TOP PANEL BEFORE IT HITS THE LEFT EDGE, then the window controls and the appmenu is displayed on the top panel and the user can interact. --- While the Launcher is hidden, IF THE CURSOR HITS THE LEFT EDGE FIRST, the Ubuntu logo on top gracefully grows into a button of its own, while (at the same time) the Launcher fades and/or slides into view (very nice visual attractions can be achieved here). Once the Launcher is shown, the user can click anywhere outside, at which instant, the Launcher and the Ubuntu button fade out of view kind of in a reverse visual effect. (If anyone can make a mockup of this, I'd really appreciate it) I strongly suggest that Canonical and other decision makers consider a design of this sorts, and not move the Ubuntu button completely out of the very-top-corner. I'm certain a compromise (as above suggestion) that is clever ans usable can be achieved between window controls and Ubuntu button. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eylem Koca wrote on 27/08/11 03:49: >> >> The current design is justified by the motivation to move the window >> control buttons to the top left. >> Apparently, the usability tests for 11.04 design showed that the >> window controls are better on the top left, so they moved the Ubuntu >> button out of that location. >>... > > No, the usability test didn't show anything like that. (How could it > have, when the test environment used only one placement?) > > What it did show was that, except for a bug, everyone managed to close a > window. However, 4 of 11 people clicked the Me menu thinking it might be > the close button. > > - -- > mpt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5c57wACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqBwACdGwSiKNTl4R4mGFP2XxM/VNSk > LS0An2j+62m/nhfiU7eQovY2naYb0A3T > =5qUv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
