I updated the mockup so it looks like a 3d shelf. As before, hovering over the shelf for a period of time makes the icons slide out of their compartments.
This lets one interesting new way to add favorite applications - click and hold on an empty compartment and the applications lens should appear to drag the desired application to a compartment. Of course, the mockup would benefit from someone with better artistic skills :) On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 18:58, Erlan Sergaziev <erlan.sergaz...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to suggest a new way of handling launcher auto-hide. > First, some reasons: > 1) When the launcher is hidden, the user is unable to quickly switch/launch > applications (so it's a regression for many against old-style taskbar panel) > and also misses the benefits of seeing launcher badges. > 2) When the launcher is always on, it steals some pixels and makes the > interface cluttered. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose that the launcher is partially hidden (about > 1/3rd of full width of app's icon) and then rolls out to full width if the > user hovers over it with a delay. > This way the user gets the following benefits: > 1) Much less horizontal space stolen, yet the icons are still recognizable > and the user can quickly point and click to launch/switch. > 2) The space potentially can fit a minimal version of a badge. E.g., the > full badge for an email app should have two parts, the count and a small > envelope. When the launcher is partially hidden, the count gets hidden but > the envelope stays. Another way would be to change color/highlight of the > icon. > 3) It is consistent with the notion of new style scrollbars in Unity. > 4) For some users constant hide/autohide is irritating, so they might > choose to have the launcher always partially hidden. > > Attached are mockups, please excuse their bad quality, but you'll get the > idea. > > What do you think? > > Erlan >
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