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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"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: clem11388@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:03:17 -0400
To: coder543@xxxxxxxxx; ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> 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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Sincerely,
    Josh

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