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[Michel Renon <michel.renon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le 26/03/2014 20:54, Zsombor Egri a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Alberto Mardegan
> <alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 03/26/2014 08:15 PM, Jouni Helminen wrote:
>      > speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the
>     exact same
>      > place - top left. Same with iOS
>      >
>      > Agreed there could be a "back" gesture, but what would it be? one
>     finger
>      > horizontal swipes are usually reserved for something else
>
>     My suggestion would be to use a one finger horizontal swipe from the
>     right edge towards left, on the lower part of the screen. The whole
>     right edge is currently used to switch between applications; we could
>     use the lower third of the screen for the back gesture (and indeed we
>     should leave the back button on the top left, since the gesture won't be
>     easily discoverable).
>
>
> I second to this idea. But the gesture does not need to start at the
> right edge. Detecting the swipe in the lower third from somewhere around
> the middle of the area (from a safe distance from the edge not
> disturbing the right edge gesture) would be easier with one hand
> especially if you are right handed, as you don't need to move your
> finger to the right edge.
>
> Yeps, it's not gonna be easily discoverable, but it could be listed in
> the intro, right ;)

Just an old info :
9 months ago, I made some mockups about that subject :
http://www.mr-consultant.net/blog/2013/06/ubuntu-touch-about-the-back-button/

don't look at the first one (an overlay), but the second : a gesture.

We can imagine that with the future bottomEdge :
- the app handles all bottomEdge gestures : the dev can implement his 
own 'back' button if he wants

- the app/page can have a bool meaning 'let the OS handle automatically 
the back button if the user does the associated gesture, otherwise, let 
the app control' : when the user does a swipe with an angle < or > to a 
predefined value, the OS executes the 'back' action.
As suggested, it could be a complement to the topleft 'back' button, 
allowing fast and easily accessible gesture.


Cheers,

Michel