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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 03/26/2014 06:58 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi, Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2014, 02:57 -0700 schrieb Nathan Haines:
>> On 03/26/2014 02:46 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
>>> Note aside: The reason why the Launcher on the phone is inverted, is because it was too hard to reach the home
>>> button in the top left corner.
>> 
>> Which I'd assumed.  A bit of a shame as far as interface conventions go, but on the other hand I can count with
>> no hands the number of times I've ever needed to use it.  :)
>> 
> hmm, same here, I used it once to try out what happens though :) Might be interesting to head if there was any user
> testing done if it is used much at all ... one could possibly replace it with a back button if it is actually used
> rarely ;)

How else do you find a launch applications?  I already find it hard, what with having to open the Launcher, hit the
Unity button and get a random screen, repeat until eventually I get the Home screen, then swipe left to get the
application screen and swipe up past the running apps (although sometimes that gesture switches back to the Home
screen) to find the installed apps, then choose one to launch.  Once it's running I can lock it to the launcher
(assuming I hold the phone right and use a finger, not my thumb).

Perhaps there's another way, but I just haven't discovered it yet.  I've only had the phone for a few weeks.  Other
phones and tablets I have used have a button I can press to get back to a home screen.  I think it would be a bad
design to never be able to get to a safe known location from anywhere.

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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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