On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >being on the desktop usually implies that you'll start some app , so it's >> > most logical to have the launcher open > > > I don't really agree with that. You can't use the launcher without either > point the mouse at it, in which case it's shown, or using the keyboard in > which case you're likely less dependent on it being visible. It's good to > have it displayed by default so that new users have an easier time > discovering it, but I'll personally use auto-hide immediately. > > Jo-Erlend Schinstad
What about multi-touch? I remember a time when Planet Ubuntu had non-stop blog posts about upcoming multitouch support sometime in the future. I bought a computer with an touch and wacom stylus support integrated into the screen. It's a flip-screen device: if I'm using the touch/stylus, the screen covers the keyboard and makes inaccessible. Here's my use case: I have one workscape dedicated to a web browser, one to a text editor. Both are maximized or fullscreen, I use the keyboard with them. I want the launcher hidden since I can just access it via keyboard. On some other workspaces I put drawing apps, pdf documents, etc. - I use mostly the stylus on them, and multitouch if (when?) there is support for it. For them I'd prefer to have the launcher accessible. Granted, the hardware I have is still rare - but only for now. Reasoning only in terms of keyboard/mouse may make sense for 12.04 (given that there's only a few months before the release), but I don't think the paradigm will hold on for much longer. ~Nikita -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
