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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Personally I have been thinking about how it would be to rework the right
> edge swipe. If it first backed out to the topp level and then start
> circulating apps, a bit like Androids back button. For me that's the most
> natural behavior I think.
>
Personally I think the Android back button is a bit of a disaster. What if
I've been surfing the web for half an hour? I have to go back-back-back
through a thousand pages before I can back out of the app?

It has other issues too -- in the SMS app, I can never seem to correctly
identify when the back button will take me back to the list of contacts, or
back out of the app -- it never seems to do what I expect and it's often
frustrating.

We definitely need a way to distinguish between "back within this app" and
"back to the previous app". A solution to that problem would put us ahead
of Android in terms of usability.