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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been wrangling my brain for ideas of what to do with the ugly top
corner and it always comes back to this idea.
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement the sliding desktop
from a coding point of view but it seems to be the most straight forward
approach without drastically altering the general desktop design and would
also add a degree of elegance and eye candy even?

I am 100% for this...

On 13 April 2012 01:10, balint777@xxxxxxxxx <balint777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> *The initial design* put the Launcher to the left to fit the Ubuntu BFB
> button nicely. The window controls got aligned to the right of the BFB. It
> worked quite fine this way<http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=cdee124b11d6baacda6c3e29b12e23dc&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fbfiller.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F13%2Funity-2d%2F&v=1&libid=1334272392039&out=http%3A%2F%2Fbfiller.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2Funity-2d-panel.png&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.hu%2Fimgres%3Fum%3D1%26hl%3Dhu%26client%3Dubuntu%26sa%3DN%26channel%3Dcs%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D514%26tbm%3Disch%26tbnid%3Dy_kn3WQ6btLnzM%3A%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fbfiller.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F13%2Funity-2d%2F%26docid%3DSbgqm5Z-Vv6ioM%26imgurl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fbfiller.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2Funity-2d-panel.png%26w%3D1280%26h%3D800%26ei%3DUGGHT5PiLs7MswbA0onBBA%26zoom%3D1%26iact%3Dhc%26vpx%3D307%26vpy%3D148%26dur%3D52%26hovh%3D177%26hovw%3D284%26tx%3D107%26ty%3D105%26sig%3D109924347144197367674%26page%3D8%26tbnh%3D124%26tbnw%3D198%26start%3D80%26ndsp%3D12%26ved%3D1t%3A429%2Cr%3A1%2Cs%3A80%2Ci%3A338&title=Unity%202D%20%C2%AB%20bfiller%20blog&txt=&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13342723954291>
> .
>
> *The issue* came in when we decided to put the BFB onto the Launcher, and
> move the window controls to the place of the original BFB. With this
> alignment, the reason to have the launcher fixed under the top bar does not
> make sense anymore.
>
> *What could we do about it?* Well, the first thing came to my mind is
> having the launcher on the bottom<http://shuffleos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/unity_shell_rotated.jpg>.
> That way having it fixed would not cause any visual inconsistency, and it
> also looks good. But... many people prefer it on the left. I personally put
> my Windows tasbar on the left also because it just makes the desktop feel
> better aligned on widescreen monitors.
>
> *What if we want to keep the launcer on the left?* I think we could still
> expose it way from the top of the screen to the bottom. The way it overlaps
> also the top bar, when invoked, but that would be just ugly. What I think
> the best solution is that having the launcher take the whole height and cut
> its width from the desktop<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/82706701/shouldbe.png>when set to always visible. When set to autohide, it sould make the whoe
> desktop could slide 32px to the right when the Launcher comes in. (Notice
> the right 32 px of the desktop is cut off on the attached file.) Just like
> the taskbar for iOS, just set to always visible by default.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
>
> 2012/4/12 Carl Ansell <afccarl1994@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> When the launcher is set to never hide, your proposal makes sense.
>>
>> However, if it is set to always hide, it will potentially slide over the
>> window controls or they would have to move out of the way.
>>
>> Although it is set to always show by default, I would think a lot of
>> people would want the launcher hidden when not needed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/04/12 17:22, Pedro Bessa wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> click https://bugs.launchpad.net/**unity/+bug/873541<https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/873541>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Pedro Bessa
>>>
>>>
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