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[Owas Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Niklas,

You have some valid points here BUT this problem has already been
solved. In fact, it was solved in the first version of Unity. The
solution is autohide. Launcher autohides by default on Ubunut making
it effectively disappear and give all the space to the app.

It looks like you are looking for ways to get your feature request of
cnfigurable position implemented. Lol, just kidding :)

And yes, the tablet looks awesome with Unity.

Enjoy.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
<niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody! I've said many times that the AppLauncher position needs to be
> configurable. In it's current implementation it only aligns to the left side
> of the screen edge. This is probably because most western languages read
> from left to right and it saves a lot of vertical space on widescreen
> monitors.
>
> Unity is designed to be a space saving environment but when a user uses a
> different screen rotation (vertical instead of horizontal - many people work
> like this when working with LO Calc or MS Excel) a ~ 60px wide vertical bar,
> taking sometimes up to more than 1920px vertical space, steals valuable
> horizontal space. If Unity really wants to be as versatile as Canonical are
> aiming for it needs to be able to adapt. Take for example this demo with a
> tablet running Ubuntu 11.04:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nHbRspykIQ
> There you can see how much space it actually waste. If it were able to
> automatically adapt depending on screen orientation or by manual
> configuration this problem wouldn't exist. I don't know if it adapts to
> right-to-left languages but it should be able to as well.
> A whole other question is how Canonical believes their global AppMenu can be
> easily used with touch displays, it seems like it would be next to
> impossible to select what you want on such a tiny space. The Elementary
> Project's philosophy regarding AppMenu's is far much more suited for a touch
> screen environment:
> http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/ui-toolkit-elements/appmenu
> Cheers!
>
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