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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2014, 12:29 -0600 schrieb Leo Arias:
> There's some info about the rationale of this change here:
> http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/new-apps-header/
> 
> "There’s only one place where you can place the back, and that’s the
> top left slot. According to our interface values, that’s a place where
> user has to intentionally stretch the finger and make an effort to
> trigger."
> 
oh thanks so much, finally some constructive answer with some info ...

Though I sadly have to disagree, when I try to reach that button there
are still about 2cm missing for me no matter how much I stretch ... if I
then slide the bottom right corner of the phone slightly down in my palm
to actually reach it, the only stabilization that kept the phone from
dropping is actually gone and it slides off my palm ... try it, I had
that happen to me a few times today (with the phone twice dropping on
the floor, which is no fun with the glassy N4)

> 
> So it's not untested or unintended behavior, you are just
> experimenting what the designers wanted. I think that the intention of
> the new header design is to place all the important items on the
> right, so you won't have to go to that left corner often, but not all
> the apps have been updated to follow the new principles. I'm not sure
> about this, it would be nice to get a reply from the design team.
yes, I was hoping to get one when I added [Design] to the subject ...

> 
> Maybe this is one of those changes that annoy some old users, but
> benefit the majority of the new-comers? I don't know. Visually and in
> the paper, I like this change and it makes sense to me. But I will
> have to change the way I use my phone, that's annoying, I agree with
> you. I'll give it a try this week to see if I get used to it, or just
> end up losing my cuddliness too :)

I totally don't mind to try out new UI behavior and I'm usually not that
opinionated and grumpy about any changes, but I am using my own N4 for
dogfooding here and I already broke one before. After dropping it twice
today when trying to get out of the grooveshark scope while testing and
knowing that the plan is to have *all* apps being used like this I
simply got quite unhappy. It might look shiny on paper but does not work
on devices above 4" without risking to drop your phone ... and we will
up to now only support and ship phones that are way larger.

Probably the button could move to the right even though that is not as
visually attractive as the left position.

ciao
	oli

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