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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Dominik Wnęk <dominik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> W dniu 24.08.2015 o 17:46, Olivier Tilloy pisze:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Dominik Wnęk <dominik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I was wondering about the refresh button in the browser. It's a little
>>> hard
>>> to get, since it only appears when tapping on the address at the top of
>>> the
>>> page, plus somehow when I want to tap it, I'm as likely as not to bring
>>> up
>>> the copy/paste menu instead of refreshing the page.
>>>
>>> Since the entire system uses pull-down-to-refresh, shouldn't the browser,
>>> too? It would make a lot of sense.
>>
>> Although the original design for the browser specified that pulldown
>> from the top would trigger opening a new tab, this was discussed today
>> with designers and challenged, and we agree that refreshing the page
>> would make more sense (and be more consistent with what other apps
>> do).
>> This requires some preliminary work in the web engine to enable it in
>> the browser though, and is tracked by
>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1415952.
>
> Thank you for your response, I'm sure it'll make the browser easier to use.
> Now, if only the renderer stopped crashing left and right. ;-)
>>
>>
>>> Also, is a "tap to scroll page back to the top" functionality on the
>>> cards?
>>
>> Not that I know of.
>
> Do you think a proposal like this might be considered? It would make sense
> in the context of pull down to refresh, too. I know iOS has this (tap at the
> top of the screen - not sure this would be doable here); I'm not sure about
> Android, but even the PS Vita browser has this, with a not particularly
> elegant button, and I, _personally_ use this functionality a lot.

The best way to find out is to report a bug at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+filebug to request that feature.
This will prompt the design team to comment on the suggestion.