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[Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefanos,
I know the orientation of icons seem off at first sight but if you
think about it in action, you would wanna see the icons close to your
mouse when you aimed at bottom left to activate the Launcher.
Otherwise it would be too much mouse motion and it would not fully
serve the purpose of making bottom left the center of launching new
applications.
I think by "second mockup" you're referring to Launcher-at-bottom. But
it is just an optional, user-configurable layout. The default is
Launcher-on-left. But think about turning your screen (or tablet)
sideways... it's good to have options ;) Better thing would be an
option called "place the Launcher on the short edge"


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Stefanos A. <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Eylem,
> it would be interesting if you could try a slight variation of the first
> mockup: the Ubuntu button at the bottom-left (like it already is) but the
> application launchers aligned on top (like they are in the default Unity
> layout). Right now, the mockup feels somewhat unbalanced with the large
> 'black' space directly below the panel. Moving the icons upwards would fix
> that.
> The second mockup really doesn't work very well on my laptop. It has a
> 1366x768 monitor and vertical space is a preciously scarce resource. Losing
> ~60 pixels of screen estate in toolbars is not really acceptable (this is
> why the left-sided placement of the Unity launcher is great).