ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Alberto Mardegan <
alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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.
>


That is correct, we are giving the bottom edge completely to the app
developers as is explained here
http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/the-very-best-edge-of-all/ so the back
button has to go somewhere else.



> 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?
>


That is difficult to discover. I could imagine having a back button at the
top left *and* having some gesture to trigger the back action.

On the other hand, apps can be designed to use the bottom edge to access
frequently accessed functionality, so maybe the back button won't be that
frequently used any more?


>
> Just brainstorming: what if sliding left from the lower part of the
> right edge triggered the "back" action?
>

Or shake the phone to go back. No problems with finger placement then :)

Tim.


> 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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