RFC: indicate visually that the top bar is draggable

[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 ;)

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Marco Martin