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Dear colleague developers,
I know that what I am about to file might not be considered to be a bug
by many. It's actually somewhere between the bugs and feature ideas
areas, maybe not a bug at all for some of you. Though, I have decided
to file it here since I think that what I am about to describe is
cognitively incorrect in the HCI field.
If you see the attachment, my mouse cursor is in the middle of two
icons. The space between them is significantly large, though an
application is highlighted at all times. In this particular example the
one on the left is highlighted and if I click on the middle of this void
space the left hand side application will be launched of course. This is
exactly what I would describe as cognitively incorrect. An icon should
be highlighted when the mouse cursor is exactly over it. The current
implementation also increases the probability of accidental application
launches which could leave the user wondering...
At the same time I would like to propose that this void space could be
used as follows. I could click on it, keep the mouse button pressed,
move the mouse and thus have an alternative and easy way of scrolling
through the dashboard's contents. This combines well with the
particularly small white scrollbar of the dashboard and the other bug I
have filed :-).
Thank you.
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bot-comment dashboard hci
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Dashboard interaction error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066461
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