The main reason the defaults are as they are, is that we haven't come up with anything better that works equally well for all screen sizes. Docking is great if there are fingers hovering over that general area of the screen, but less so if there's a pointer that has to travel the distance to the bottom. Stretching from edge to edge is a lot more desirable on smallish touch screens than on pointer operated 24" and larger monitors.
Judging by the bug reports we receive, tablet users seem to have become the majority, though. Perhaps it's time to inconvenience them less, turn on docking and stretching and accept the "broken" look on large screens. At least short term. Medium term I think we could do better by adapting the settings to the system at runtime. I've been thinking about this on and off before, there would be a number of profiles to chose from, e.g. "Tablet", "Desktop", "Keyboard scanning", etc. . The most suitable one (hopefully) would be selected on first start, but it could be manually changed any time afterwards. That's too late for Xenial, though, I suppose. Too large of a change to get it accepted, probably. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1546654 Title: Standard configuration proposal Status in Onboard: New Status in onboard package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, I think three changes to the standard configuration should be implemented: 1.) onboard Keyboard should be docked to the lower edge 2.) onboard Keyboard should be stretched to full horizontal size 3.) onboard Keyboard height should be increased, like 2/5 of the vertical height. As example a screenshot of windows onboard keyboard: http://cdn2.pcadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3360300/fuller_keyboard.png Regards ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: onboard 1.1.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Feb 17 18:08:56 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-13 (522 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) SourcePackage: onboard UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1546654/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
