RFC: indicate visually that the top bar is draggable

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, October 27, 2011 16:35:22 Fania Bremmer wrote:
> ** 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.

this will be the case for any number of things in Active that aren't found 
elsewhere.

as another data point: the Android phone we have in the house has this same 
feature and there is _no_ indication that it can be dragged down.

imho, there is no way around some basic before-you-use-it-first education. it 
should only take 30s, but it's required.

otherwise we end up putting visual noise everywhere that only serves you for 
the first 30 seconds of usage. we can't make everything discoverable without 
also making it cluttered and in many cases simply harder to use as a result.

imho, this is trade off we will face in many places. it's the bane of doing 
anything new or different. which is a good argument for ensuring that what we 
do differently, we have good reasons for :)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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