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[Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:45 AM, Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I often hear suggestions like this; about where something should be
> placed or how it should behave because it belongs to this or that
> technical part of the system, but surely something should be placed
> where it is most logical to place it in terms of user interaction, not
> system semantics.
> 
> As Brandon said, moving the indicators to the bottom doesn't make sense
> from an interaction point of view since it takes up more space (two
> panels vs one).
> 
> Furthermore, placing them at the bottom would increase the distance the
> mouse has to travel from the top-left corner. At the moment one of the
> things I really like about Unity is that almost everything I use
> regularly is in the top-left quarter of my screen. This is particularly
> important for me, as I use a laptop touchpad. The indicators, being in
> the top right, are a screen width away. If we put them in the bottom
> right, they are a screen diagonal away.
> 
> If we were desperate to make the application/OS distinction (though as
> I've said, I'm personally not in favour of semantics over ease of use)
> we could put the indicators in the launcher, but then they take up space
> in the launcher. This space could be reduced by having two columns of
> indicators, but then some indicator menus would cover other indicators
> and miss clicks become more annoying. We could also put the indicators
> in a drawer, but that increases the number of clicks.
> 
> For me personally, the current location of indicators makes sense from
> an interaction point of view, at the fairly minimal (IMHO) cost of
> system semantics.
> 
> Matt
> 
> On 02/08/12 00:09, Pedro Bessa wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Mr. Yazel said he likes the option of changing the position
>> of the top bar to the bottom of the screen.
>> 
>> 
>> I said in a old, different bug report:
>> "Windows are rectangles and the rectangles are a group,
>> but you're making windows look like weird rectangles."
>> 
>> Now, I noticed:
>> in windows, sys tray is out of the window
>> in unity, indicators are in the window
>> 
>> 
>> Indicarors don't belong to the app/window.
>> They belong to the os/distro.
>> 
>> 
>> Please, move indicators to the bottom of the screen.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Pedro Bessa
>> 
>> PS the quote is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/873541
>> 
> 
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+1 to what Matt said.