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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alberto Mardegan [2014-03-25 22:21 +0200]:
> Just brainstorming: what if sliding left from the lower part of the
> right edge triggered the "back" action?

I had pretty much the same proposal yesterday on IRC: E. g. in the
scopes, swiping (anywhere) to the right doesn't currently do anything.
That felt like a natural "back" action to me, i. e. move the page that
I see to the right so that I get back to the previous one. The
intuition is certainly the other way around in Israel or Japan where
books are being read from right to left :-), but that could be taken
into account (support both or look at locale?)

But regardless of how it's done, consistency is the key. I really
consider the abolishing of hardware back and menu buttons a bad move
(I hope my old Xperia with proper buttons still lasts a while..),
which created all these design problems of hoping all developers in
the world would consistently create back buttons in the UI, or
otherwise create an undiscoverable inconsistency. So from that POV
putting it in the current location on the top left title bar is a good
decision.

Martin


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