C'mon designers, haven't you read your Fitt's law? Edge-swiping on a
fullscreen mobile app is great, because the "edge" target is effectively
infinite in size, so it's an easy swipe. Swiping up on a windowed
desktop application is infuriatingly impossible, because the 1px target
is *tiny*.
Yes, obviously there are a range of devices and the concept of "desktop"
is nebulous at best, but it should not be difficult to come up with a
reasonable set of heuristics for when it makes sense to lock the toolbar
open. Something like "Only autohide the toolbar when the app is running
fullscreen and there is no mouse connected"
As far as I'm concerned, the presence of touch input is irrelevant;
connecting a mouse should lock open the toolbars. But even without a
mouse, Fitt's law clearly indicates that a hidden toolbar that is not at
the extreme edge of the display is a bad idea.
** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Slide out toolbar should be displayed by default on the desktop
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