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[Scott May <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I took what Sam said and just tried everything I thought I'd need to 
(that I can so far) and yeah, "back" wasn't as important as it is in 
Android - to my mind.  I think expansion, those carousel devices on the 
people page remove the need more that I thought.  I still like my 
gesture "swipe from the bottom edge to the left edge" but there's 
contention around this, I understand.

The web browser has gesture problems - not because of "back" though - 
getting the launcher up and dragging the page around functions too close 
together - hard to describe but easy to see. This gives me some concerns 
for larger than screen apps like the map type (which I'm interested in, 
and why I mention them a bit).

I can still see myself adding a "back" button to certain apps I might 
write, and hope that the design guys demonstrate an acceptable way that 
we may all copy.

Till later,
Scott.
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    Scott May.
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On 12/06/13 23:13, Josh Leverette wrote:
> Just curious, but what part of the update made your opinion change? I 
> think this issue is resolved for now though.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Scott May <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     To be honest I've not updated my Nexus to a recent image (until
>     just now!) since we're approaching the "dog fooding" stage. 
>     Anyway I did and my opinion may have changed.
>
>     I think "Expansion" is probably something we're not so familiar
>     with as programmers and user interface designers, but will be very
>     useful and eliminate the need for "back" in certain circumstances.
>     http://design.ubuntu.com/apps/building-blocks/expansion
>
>     Also, the example shown in
>     http://design.ubuntu.com/apps/building-blocks/page-stack - stage 2
>     - the app could easily have a "back" symbol to the left of Julia's
>     head, no problem - ie the app could supply an obvious "back" when
>     appropriate.
>
>     Also, glad I updated, it's come a long way recently!
>
>
>     Now I can't sleep at all, I think I'll watch some Justified :)
>
>
>
>     Till later,
>     Scott.
>     ______________________________
>          Scott May.
>          scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  <mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>          Mobile  0417 195 018
>
>
>     On 12/06/13 22:51, Sam Bull wrote:
> >     On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 13:37 +0100, Lou Greenwood wrote:
> > >     See the following link for examples of the back button in the core OS.
> > >
> > >     http://design.ubuntu.com/apps/building-blocks/page-stack
> >     I've been running the system on my phone for nearly 4 months, I know
> >     where the back button is. I also know how often I use the back button,
> >     and I don't think it's as often as everybody else thinks it is.
> >
> >     The visible by default thing might be good in something like system
> >     settings, assuming it uses a design where it enters deeper pages like on
> >     other OSs. But, it shouldn't a system-wide thing, just for particular
> >     apps where you can expect to use the back button frequently. And, I'm
> >     pretty sure this can already be implemented by the apps.
>
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