On 4/6/06, Wouter van Heyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:21:27PM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote: > > On 4/6/06, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:40 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > > > > On do, 2006-04-06 at 00:44 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote: > > > > > The recent move of the major column in the Launchpad pages from Right > > > > > to Left has been a source of (wrist) pain and consternation. Please > > > > > unmove it. For right-handed mouse users, going all the way to the Left > > > > > of the screen frequently is a huge pain, and I suppose the majority of > > > > > us here, and of the launchpad users are right handed. So please keep > > > > > it on the right. > > > > > > > > This was moved because lots of people complained about the 3-column > > > > layout. One of the reasons is that the middle column regularly iverflows > > > > on non-huge screens. However, serverl portlets are still at the right > > > > side, nullifying the effect of moving a few to the left... > > > > > > Yes, it's quite confusing to have the portlets jumping around. Hopefully > > > we will see a consistent two column layout eventually. > > > > I hope that in the eventual version, the sidebar is on the right, for > > the reasons I explained above :) > > A lot of people also read from left to right, so I'm not sure it works > like that. You can easily keep the cursor at the left hand side, no?
As I mentioned before, the scroll bar is on the left, and the pages at launchpad never will fit into just one screenfull. So I have to travel longer to get to the left menu. This is a pet peeve with gmail too, for me. As for the overflow issue, isn't that something that can be fixed by using CSS to prevent such overflows? Carthik. > Wouter van Heyst > > -- > launchpad-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users > -- Ph.D. Candidate University of Central Florida Homepage: http://carthik.net
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