"card style" probably resembles ALT + TAB in the desktop.
So I don't believe is a bad idea.
Anyway the "Apps lens" shows some of the running apps as you can see here:
http://youtu.be/Q566IGyVB0o?t=6m39s
So I don't know if that might be an equivalent. Would be cool to just "swipe
up" to close them.
Also I believe you can switch using the "Launcher" (kinda like how you would do
it on the desktop).
Am not sure however if they fall off the radar and they need to make these
things more obvious that apps are running and could use these methods to switch
to them.
Regards.
From: clem11...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:03:17 -0400
To: coder...@gmail.com; ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Card style multitasking
Non-dev comment:
I very much agree with this suggestion. Doesn't have to be implement
exactly this way, though I also like the idea of short swipe, long swipe.
Similar to short press long press.
I always hoped Ubuntu would have take OpenWebOS code and used it instead of
starting fresh. But the primary thing I liked about WebOS was the card style
multitasking. It felt much more intuitive and empowering to use. Like I was
really in control of what I was doing with my device. Not fumbling trying to
work around the difficulties.
Please look into this deeper and try to put the GNU/Linux/Ubuntu flair on it to
make it easy for gramma and gramdad but still hold the empowering capabilities
of the original concept.
Thank you guys and God Bless your work.
Clem
Josh Leverette <coder...@gmail.com> wrote:
With our current multitasking system, swiping from the right switches to the
previous application.
This is good.
When we swipe marginally from the left, it brings up the dock. Swiping all the
way to the right returns us home (specifically, to the apps page). What if
swiping marginally from the right switched to the previous one, but swiping
fully from the right brought us to the a card style app switcher similar to
what webOS and now iOS 7 have implemented? It seems like an elegant extension
of swiping from the left, to assume that swipe distance on the right similarly
impacts the effect. A short swipe from the right would allow you to quickly
switch to the previous app as well, so not impacting functionality.
I know this might be considered redundant, but I still thought it was worth
mentioning. You are free to discard this idea fully.
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Josh
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