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

My wish is that they implement a button which isn't a part of the
AppLauncher Icon's area but still not taking up the top left corner since
the window buttons are really awkwardly placed when working with a maximized
window in 11.04. But without that corner it loses a lot of efficiency
(Fitt's Law). Hopefully Canonical can find an alternative design which makes
it possible to align the Launcher and still keep it placed good
strategically :)

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

> Well, you're still suggesting moving the Ubuntu button to the bottom
> left when the Launcher is at the bottom, right? The problem with that
> is that it disturbs the overall consistency of the desktop. I mean,
> the Ubuntu button and the Dash are (should be) central to Unity
> desktop and moving them around would diminish their role. With the
> current design, their role is already reduced to a "just another
> Launcher widget", similar to KDE. That's why I posted that proposal,
> so that they're really emphasized as they should be...
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist
> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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