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 <eylemk...@gmail.com> > 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.rosenqv...@gmail.com> 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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > >
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