According to Francis' comment in that bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987823>, the user may feel disoriented when entering the task manager, particularly from the (future) swipe-from-bottom, and that edge gestures covers this switching need.
At a time when we had problems simply getting task manager to perform reasonably, I can see why this would be a concern. Going forward, though, I think we can, and should, provide a transition that orients the user properly while also opening to the second-used app. (iOS's spatial model is similar to ours, and they have a nice transition that orients the user well.) We've received a lot of feedback that Task Manager feels "useless", and I think this is one of the main reasons why, along with launch slowness, incorrect touch-snapping physics, and choppy/poor drag-to-close physics. Rob/Francis (or whoever is responsible for task manager), are your concerns still the same as I stated here, and do you still feel the current behavior is ideal? If necessary, I'd like to perform some real-world user testing to turn intuition into concrete data. (This isn't an urgent issue, but it's one that I consider important; if user testing is necessary, I'd probably account for the option when working on "swipe-from-bottom", which would make it simple to test both behaviors in the wild.) I'm reopening the bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987823> for tracking purposes, so that whatever happens, our thought processes are noted in discoverable form. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Dietrich Ayala <[email protected]> wrote: > App switching is absolutely the dominant use-case for this feature. > > Resolved WONTFIX: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987823 > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:20 AM Wilson Page <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 This makes a lot more sense. >> >> *W I L S O N P A G E* >> >> Front-end Developer >> Firefox OS (Gaia) >> London Office >> >> Twitter: @wilsonpage >> IRC: wilsonpage >> >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Rob MacDonald <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Marcus... >>> >>> I'll ping Francis and Liz on behalf of UX. Francis will be able to >>> provide more insight on how we arrived at this design. >>> >>> - Rob >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Marcus Cavanaugh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The iOS task manager opens to the previously-used app, not the current >>>> app, which means you can immediately switch between the two most recent >>>> apps in task manager without scrolling the list. >>>> We, on the other hand, open the current app. >>>> >>>> The iOS behavior provides better usability for switching between two >>>> commonly-used apps. The only advantage to our model is that it makes it >>>> easier to force-close the current app. >>>> >>>> Can we modify our behavior to match iOS? Is there a compelling reason >>>> not to? (Disclosure: I'm currently working on the task manager.) >>>> >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dev-fxos mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------- >>> Sr. UX Designer >>> Firefox OS >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-fxos mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> >
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