It would also be interesting to look at standardizing that sort of button. iOS 
has its back button like that iirc, and Android has what they call an "up" 
button that is standardized and provides a similar behavior. If we were to go 
this route, it'd need to be written into the HIG since it deviates from our 
current story of only having icons in the toolbar. Which is okay as long as 
it's specific and has a clear use case.

Something like: "A back button is a toolbar button with the text of the page 
the user will be going back to if they click it. It is always at the far left 
of the toolbar, has a raised appearance with an arrow shape, and does not 
contain an icon. This button should only appear when there is a main view of an 
app to go back to."

That's just a rough stream of thought as an example of what we could put in the 
HIG. We could then add it into Granite to get the styling and behavior perfect 
(and to prevent duplicate work from devs). This would all be post-Luna of 
course.

Thoughts?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff 
<[email protected]> wrote:
I can add that GNOME has recently introduced a "show all" icon. 

The icon shown in the mockup is not a simple tweak, so let's leave it 
as is till Luna+1. We're past feature freeze after all. 

2012/11/23 Alfredo Hernández : 
> It's much better than the current implementation. IMHO, a 'Show all' button 
> gives more information this a home button. 
> 
> El 23/11/2012 14:58, "Jaap Broekhuizen" escribió: 
>> 
>> I saw Andrea did a proposal for adding a nice back button on switchboard a 
>> few months ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard/+bug/1039269 
>> 
>> I think this is a good idea to implement, because it looks great, and the 
>> current implementation with a button that keeps switching between an arrow 
>> and a "home" button is a bit weird. I had to think about how that worked and 
>> i don't think we want that :) 
>> 
>> So what do you guys think of this? 
>> 
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