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[Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My suggestion for back gesture (I "tried" it on my phone and it feels fine)
> is to have a back button instead of dash button at the bottom of the
> toolbar
> (and move the dash button to the top just to have Ubuntu be the same).
> You can back out by pulling the launcher and pressing the button, or (which
> most users will probably do after a while) drag from the left edge at the
> bottom
> (ie. mimicking dragging out the launcher and back button at the same time).
> For this to work an animation has to be created so that after the launcher
> have extended and you continue to drag the back button "follows".
>
> Also, keep the back in the header for easy discoverbility.
>

This proposal sounds nice, the question left when using Rasmus suggestion,
what about the highest application level, when there is no longer something
the back button can reference. Not showing the back button in the menu
would be bad. Showing the back button but disabled, would be bad too.
My suggestion → when on the highest app level, the back button should be
turned into a close button, which could be triggered like the back action
before, but would have to be hold a bit longer to make sure the user really
wants to close the app. Also there should be another icon and animation
indicating that the user is on the way to close the app.