unity-design team mailing list archive

["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 19:01, Sunil Singh Rana <sunil.rana@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think its a great idea. Design can be modified so that it remain
> consistent if some user chooses it to be on bottom. I don't really see much
> philosophy behind the current design; for example: I don't know why the top
> panel or left panel have to have the grey transparent visual effect when
> dash is called. I wouldn't mind if the dash shows itself in the center of
> the screen, without blocking the menus and controls of the previous
> in-focus application. In the later case, I would be able to drag and drop
> from the dash to any side of the screen, and the design would look more
> symmetric.
>
> Sunil
>

good points.
I'm having nothing but annoyances with the left-hand-side launcher.
on the long run i'd prefer the dash to do everything for me, it would have
a gesture-activated ALT-TAB-like mode, which would then replace the
Launcher altogether.
And then the launcher API with the progress bars and all the fancy dynamic
indication stuff would start to make sense to me.