What if you have a listview with a list item near the bottom of the screen, which can be deleted by doing a horizontal swipe? It will conflict with this back gesture.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Zsombor Egri <zsombor.e...@canonical.com>wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Alberto Mardegan < > alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> On 03/26/2014 08:15 PM, Jouni Helminen wrote: >> > speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the exact same >> > place - top left. Same with iOS >> > >> > Agreed there could be a "back" gesture, but what would it be? one finger >> > horizontal swipes are usually reserved for something else >> >> My suggestion would be to use a one finger horizontal swipe from the >> right edge towards left, on the lower part of the screen. The whole >> right edge is currently used to switch between applications; we could >> use the lower third of the screen for the back gesture (and indeed we >> should leave the back button on the top left, since the gesture won't be >> easily discoverable). >> > > I second to this idea. But the gesture does not need to start at the right > edge. Detecting the swipe in the lower third from somewhere around the > middle of the area (from a safe distance from the edge not disturbing the > right edge gesture) would be easier with one hand especially if you are > right handed, as you don't need to move your finger to the right edge. > > Yeps, it's not gonna be easily discoverable, but it could be listed in the > intro, right ;) > > Cheers, > Zsombor > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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