RFC: indicate visually that the top bar is draggable

[Fania Bremmer]

Am 27.10.2011 16:54, schrieb Marco Martin:
> On Thursday 27 October 2011, Fania Bremmer wrote:
>> ** Proposed Change **
>> Provide a visual indicator like an arrow or little drag-icons (or something
>> else?), that the Peek&Launch Area is draggable to the bottom.
>>
>> ** Reason For Change **
>> A lot of users didnt know that the top bar is draggable at all. The only
>> saw it as other people were doing it.
>>
>> ** Implementation Details **
>> - a visual element needs to be added to the top bar
> that reminds me the discussion we had at the workshop.
> dragging what looks like an old windows taskbar is not something common at
> all. putting an arrow would suggest that there is a button, not that is
> draggable (so would basically mean reverting to what we had before, a button
> that opens, and generally a draggable behavior)
> so i'm not sure that's the solution or that -needs- a solution.
> it's typically one of the things that only need a lot of advertising, like the
> pinching gesture at the beginning or the nokia swipe thinghy.
>
> they look so natural and obvious but they have no visual hints whatoever, why?
> i think it's just the amount of publicity they got that made those gesture
> obvious. that is of course something harder for us since we have less
> advertising muscles.
>
> that's just an opinion, then reverting back to the old button, maybe with a
> different icon isn't hard, just looks a bit a step back ;)

ok, lets close this request with the mentioning: we show this feature 
exclusively on the introduction video, so every user will sooner or 
later find out.