Wont be added for the LTS as it would add too much new and potentially unstable 
code, might afterwards though.


Have you considered changing the panel reveal area to the top left corner (Like 
it was in Natty)?



Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:13:37 +0100
From: sunil.r...@gmail.com
To: davor.bu...@gmail.com
CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

Dear friends,                   Discussion on the bottom unity seem to have 
stuck.Here in this mail I present my experience with the users who used ubuntu 
first time. Be it that I installed it on their computer or they uses it on my 
computer, each of them, yes without an exception, had trouble with the left 
side panel showing as an uninvited guest, and it really annoyed them just as it 
annoy me some time.




I reread all the mails in the thread and I think we need to ask ourselves 
questions about the current design. 1) Why do we want the launcher on the left, 
is it only to save the vertical space or there is more to it?



2) What is the philosophy behind the current design. I think Swapnil had some 
important things about the design of unity. I think we need to clearly note 
down the philosophy behind the current design. This question is important. The 
sense I got from the above discussion is that the current design tries to give 
value to the word unity by unifying the left launcher, dash and the top panel. 
If that is the only intent, I am sure we can have some better, more symmetric 
design which preserves the philosophy of the design ( this is what I call 
unifying) under the position changing of the left panel.


3) Do we actually believe that we can pave our way through the ecosystem where 
apps assume left edge free of panels, and force them to write applications 
optimized for unity look. 4) One of the main thing in the design should be to 
minimize the number of steps and/or mouse traversal distance to do the intended 
action. I think the position of lenses at the bottom of dash increases the 
mouse travel in comparison to have them below the search bar.



I personally think.
Having the Dash in the center of the screen, leaving space on all the sides 
when not maximized is more symmetric.To give a unified look we also could give 
the dash a visual 3D effect to visualize it out of the desktop, connect the 
corners of the screen with the corners of the dash thus giving it a box like 
look. whose five faces are visible and desktop as the bottom face. its just an 
Idea. I am sure people have better ideas to give a unified look. 


I hope I made myself clear enough to understand.
I attached a image to demonstrate that how difficult can it be to use the kind 
of app in the image which has so much clickable area along the left edge.

Thanks to all of you. 



On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 23:29, Davor <davor.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:




Dana Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:15:12 +0100, Ryan Gauger <rtg...@gmail.com> 
napisao/napisala je:

> It does give more customization to users. I understood what Shuttleworth




> said about why Unity wasn't more customizable in Natty: because it was a
> 1.0. But now that it's not a total 1.0 anymore, why not add some more
> customization like being able to choose the position of the launcher? I




> also like the idea that it could also be on the right side of the  
> screen.

I absolutely agree - easier to use (for right handed too) - window controls in 
well known place




 A
> lot of people reading this might be thinking "What about indicators?"  
> Well,
> they could be moved over a bit, or just stay where they are, since the  
> Dash

> Home button is not on the top panel anymore. Good thinking, Christian!
>
> ---Ryan
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Christian Rupp <christ...@r-k-r.de>  




> wrote:
>
>>  I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it
>> working:
>> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html




>>
>> Should we include it in one of ubuntu next releases as a easy to  
>> activate
>> option
>>
>>
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