Aside: Edge gestures can be disabled in Settings. (fwiw, I like the alopex designs with a standard, more browser-like Chrome)
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Les Orchard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I would be sad to see edge gestures go away as a method of switching >> between windows because it's currently my favourite feature of Firefox OS, >> but I understand that it makes for a simpler spatial model if edge gestures >> go back/forward in session history instead. >> > > FWIW, +1000 for a standard back button. But, I'm really not a fan of edge > gestures at all, for any purpose. > > It hurts me to say this, because I loved the Palm Pre. It was all about > edge gestures. But, that device had some reserved physical bezel space to > accommodate starting those gestures. > > For today's slab-o-glass devices, though, edge gestures are a pain when > your phone is in a case with a lip around the edge - like the one we got > with the foxfooding phones, for example. And they also sometimes interfere > with content - I was trying to scroll... why did I just change tabs? > > I'd really, really rather have buttons at the bottom like Android - even > if it has to be in an auto-hiding contextual bar. I'd also like options to > disable edge gestures & make the button bar always visible if I like. > > -- > [email protected] > http://lmorchard.com > {web,mad,computer} scientist; {tech,scifi} writer; home{brew,roast}er; > Mozillian > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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