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[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't it work anyway since the BUB is now inside the AppLauncher area?
All corners are a great position according to Fitt's Law so there's no need
to move the position of the BUB relative to the rest of the launcher - and
the Dash would ofcourse unflod accordingly.

2011/8/22 Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx>

> I totally agree that the Launcher edge alignment should be user
> configurable but with the Ubuntu icon (and Dash) on the top left, I
> don't see how it can be possible.
> Please see my proposal which makes this very possible:
> https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg06309.html
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:14 AM, 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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