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[Sunil Singh Rana <sunil.rana@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Matt Richardson <
m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On the note of which control to put in the top left, what if we extended
> the launcher to the top (as has been previously mentioned) but then have it
> so that you can either close by clicking the close button, or by moving the
> mouse to the top left corner, and then right, along the top, to close.
>
How about the situation when launcher is set to auto hide and reveal from
the left edge. We could argue that in that case the window control buttons
( close maximize and minimize) will move to corner, and it would not be a
problem that launcher, when revealed,l overlaps the buttons as user won't
be using them,  but then if the dash is called where will the buttons be.
Dash, so far design is concerned, distinguished from the other
applications, hence it always poses a special case to deal with.
To address this I would say,  free the Dash window from the launcher and
let its window, in functionality, behave more like windows of other
applications, however, it may differ in visual design to give the unity
feel.

Thanks

Sunil

>
> e.g. Top one is pointer movement, bottom one is mouse movement.
>
>
> Matt
>
> On 19/05/12 20:18, shane lee wrote:
>
> But the point I have against the close-in-the-corner argument, as I
> have said before, is that not every window is used maximized and some
> windows cannot be maximized at all (System Settings, Calculator) so
> there is never a common close spot.
>
> Because the window buttons for maximized windows are hidden, then
> there could be a case to have a set spot to aim for but the answer to
> that is to keep the window buttons visible all the time.
>
> I believe that is the direction the last discussion was heading and a
> developer (Trevino) demonstrated a patch to keep the window buttons
> showing always but nobody responded to it after that.
>
> On 19 May 2012 19:16, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:06 -0500, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
>
>  If one uses autohide, this problem doesn't really exist because all of
> the space below that corner is also being used. However, if one uses
> the always-visible launcher, then the problem does exist. I suggest
> that, if the user is using an always-visible launcher, the launcher
> goes all the way to the top of the screen, cutting down those ~48px of
> space from the panel but also removing that ugly corner. Yes, the
> panel will be a little shorter, but it is, in my opinion, a good
> sacrifice to remove that visual "glitch". Not sure if this has been
> suggested before, but I'll suggest it again if it has.
>
>  One big argument here is what we use the important top-left corner of
> the screen for. It's one of the easiest places on the screen to move the
> mouse quickly; and at the moment, the "close current window" button is
> there. If we lengthened the panel up to the top of the screen, the Dash
> button would be there instead, which at least I use less commonly than
> opening the window.
>
> (We don't make perfect use of the other screen corners either, by the
> way; bottom-left is for the trash, which is not the sort of thing that's
> accessed often enough to need a corner, and bottom-right isn't used for
> anything. I guess having an unbound corner is useful as Compiz allows
> you to bind things to screen corners, which would require a corner
> that's not already being used for other things.)
>
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