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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2014, 09:33 -0400 schrieb Stephen M. Webb:
> On 03/26/2014 09:12 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> >> 
> > well, it effectively just duplicates the "swipe all the way to the right" gesture to get back to the shell ... i
> > find myself using that gesture and then navigating over to the apps scope regulary while I literally only tried the
> > home button once since I use the phone (well, twice now since I wanted to know where you end up with the new
> > scopes), I'm wondering if it is like that for more people or if the Unity button is actively used by many...
> 
> Hmm, I was unaware the particular velocity and distance of a swipe changed its meaning.  It seems this "long swipe"
> works to go Home when an app is running, but not from the greeter screen which is what I start from after waking up
> the phone when I need to use it, so I never discovered this subtlety.
> 
> Is this "swipe all the way to the right" intended to be the way to reveal a list of installed applications to launch
> on the converged desktop, the one running on a large high-DPI monitor with only a trackpad for input, or will the
> converged Ubuntu simply change to a desktop-oriented UI the Microsoft's celebrated Windows 8 so successfully does?
> 
UGH ! I hope we will never hard depend on gestures on a desktop UI :) (I
wouldn't even expect to find scopes by default on a desktop UI
background actually, I hope we keep the current desktop dash concept
even in the converged world)

You should be able to use a desktop with a mouse pointer by default and
gestures should be something you can optionally use there if your
display has touch support ... on a phone or tablet UI where you simply
wont have a mouse, gestures can/must/should be the default though.

ciao
	oli

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