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[Alberto Mardegan <alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 03/25/2014 08:47 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 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)

If I understood design's plans correctly, the reason for this move is
that we want to free the bottom edge and make it completely available
to application developers.
While that's indeed a good idea, I agree with you that the new
suggested location for the back button is quite inconvenient. I wonder
if we can come up to some gesture to trigger the "back" action?

Just brainstorming: what if sliding left from the lower part of the
right edge triggered the "back" action?
OTOH, having such hard to discover gestures is what some people
dislike about Sailfish OS, so I'm not sure we want to go down the same
route here.

Ciao,
  Alberto
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