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[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 March 2014 14:20, Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Maybe in the spirit of longer swipe doing more you could do a close on
edge-to-edge swipe and at top level only closing will be available and
shorter swipe will do nothing.

Thanks

Michal