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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

None of Ubuntu's gestures are discoverable, that's just the hard reality of
it. The only way this is ever going to work is if the team puts a
first-boot tutorial that walks you through each of the gestures and makes
you practice them (with a skip option for people who already know what
they're doing). I just assumed this first-boot tutorial was already being
developed? When reviewers get their hands on this OS, they will pound it
for being unintuitive to the average Joe unless there is such a tutorial,
and they'll be right.

Sincerely,
Josh
On Jun 12, 2013 7:24 AM, "Fola Dawodu" <folabiklan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I doubt if anyone can discover pin to exit gesture on their own. meaning
> its not exactly intuitive.
>
> But the again, if i may recall the design paradigm for Touch actually does
> not envisage this problem as a general thing (i'm pretty sure i'm wrong
> though)
>
> meaning that this really should be an issue to be solved by each app.
> (probably with defined guidelines)
>
> Its not right to assume that each and every app will be compatible with
> whatever solution proposed here.
>
> The base OS itself does not appear to require any going back (at lease
> from the gestures and flow design).
>
>
>
> On 12/06/2013 13:19, Josh Leverette wrote:
>
> What's wrong with the Pin to Exit gesture? It will not be accidentally
> discovered by old people in all but the most unlikely scenarios, the
> toolbar already provides a back option for them, and power users would
> benefit from having a faster and perhaps more elegant way to go back. It's
> quick and does not require any finger acrobatics, and does not interfere
> with any existing gesture.
>
> Sincerely,
> Josh
> On Jun 12, 2013 7:06 AM, "Sam Bull" <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 10:11 +0100, Lou Greenwood wrote:
>> > I imagine that the page stack will be a very common view, having to
>> > swipe up and then stretch and tap, just to go back, could become
>> > fatiguing. Perhaps once I get my hands on a working set-up my concerns
>> > will be unfounded.
>>
>> Just an observation about the design, but it seems the design is to
>> avoid needing the back button most of the time. I don't find myself
>> using the back button very often because of this. For example, the
>> people lens expands the view when you select a contact, and has a button
>> to collapse it again. Another example, in the phone app the header is
>> used to switch between different pages (phone, contacts and messages).
>>
>> The design seems to be avoiding using a back button on the most frequent
>> scenarios. I'd recommend trying out the phone first, and then see how
>> often you actually use the back button.
>>
>> Also, I feel that the short swipe and tap to go back is easier and
>> faster than just about all the gesture suggestions so far.
>>
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