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[Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Inbox. The back button is in an app, why would the back button exit the
> app? Nothing should take you 'back to the notifications'

Well, see, that's where the confusion comes, I see the page stack as having
the email page on top of the notifications page, thus if it were to go back
in the stack, I would go back to notifications.

as the
> notifications are in the indicators along the top, just drag it down if
> you want to access them again.

What if I was in the calendar app and attached an email to my calendar
entry. I go to the email, want to go back to calendar?

There needs to be a clear distinction between in-app back and os-level back

Zisu Andrei


On 25 June 2013 15:02, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 14:50 +0100, Zisu Andrei wrote:
> > There is one major flaw I see straightaway and which has been raised
> > many times on this thread: you open an email from a notification, you
> > tap the back button, where do you go: inbox or back to the
> > notifications?
>
> Inbox. The back button is in an app, why would the back button exit the
> app? Nothing should take you 'back to the notifications' as the
> notifications are in the indicators along the top, just drag it down if
> you want to access them again.
>
> If you just want to reply to the notification, without opening an app,
> you can do that from the notification, so it's not like you're opening
> an app everytime you get a notification.
>
> That sounds like an Android issue, where the back button means both back
> AND quit. And where you have to open the messaging app in order to
> respond to a text. I don't see how this is an issue with Ubuntu Touch.
>