What about requiring a hit and park to display the launcher? In order to show the launcher, the user must place the point er on the edge of the screen and stop it there. Then, after a brief delay (100-150ms), the launcher would reveal.
On 11/04/2011 01:10 PM, Sony-qs wrote:
Isn't it possible to adjust the launcher like this?[Had mockup attached with Launcher starting below Firefox's bars]
So far, I only have one case where I regularly get the Launcher while aiming at something else: using Inkscape's toolbar. I often use the shortcuts for tool switching, but now I'm painfully reminded of each time I don't. I would expect users who make less use of shortcuts to be hit harder.
For any application with an important toolbar or similar on the left, offsetting the Launcher is not possible, as there is not not enough space left. Triggering only when you slam the pointer to the edge does not help, as the user does that anyway, to get to the target area as fast as possible.
Triggering only if the pointer reaches "negative" coordinates is not an option, as that either is too hard to trigger, or will happen as soon as you slam the pointer towards the edge.
As long as the Launcher stays on the left and does not stay fixed on the screen *, application should avoid putting important stuff in proximity. But complex application may have so many tools and options that it may be painful, layout-wise, to avoid an entire edge.
* To be clear, I do not recommend to get rid of the Launcher hiding behavior, as screen space is too precious for that on anything but very large displays (perhaps).
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