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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 19:09, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > They are very different things, and a design that works well for one
> > will hardly ever work well for the other.
>
>
> I'm a little bit confused now because Mark's blog post about Unity
> clearly stated that some design decisions were motivated by touch
> devices. Is the Unity design still taking touch into consideration
> or this was completely dropped once it was decided that Desktops
> would use it too?


wow.. i think i'm having a Déja Vu!

 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 22:24, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

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> Of course the iPad doesn't use a File menu, it has a touch interface.
> (And hides files almost completely.) But thinking that a touch interface
> will work well on a desktop machine is just as wishful as thinking the
> reverse.


(an excerpt from "[Ayatana] Global Menu on the Desktop")