remove or keep the activity view in the window list

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, September 26, 2011 17:45:48 Fania Bremmer wrote:
> > i'm a little concerned about a button that changes its UI like that, but
> > it's plausible and the kind of change that could be made quite easily.
> > i'd defer to Fania before attempting it, though. Fania: what do you
> > think?
> 
> Sorry for answering that late.... so, what i already saw on a tablet 
> from Karlheinz was putting the contour logo in the upper right corner, 
> that switches right back to the current activity. Looks very smooth and 
> logically from an interaction kind of view.
> 
> Thinking about switching this icon to another one and doubling the meaning
> of the button - I wouldn't do that.
> 
> What are the most common usecases in this situation, starting from the
> activity screen: - open a resource: simply tap on it, it launches
> - go back to current activity: simply tap on the contour icon
> - start a new application: go to the launch area, tap on one
> - go to another open application: just open the peek area and tap
> ->  so I think we dont need a "back-button" or a "show me my last
> application" button. What we could think about, would be the ordering in
> the peek area though. Currently they are sorted in the order of opening,
> right? So here it might be good to have the last ones opened in the very
> beginning. So we would have some sort of "backbutton-area" in our
> task-switcher.
> 
> But as Karlheinz mentioned - there are still a lot of bugs waiting to be
> fixed; new features should be focussed on in next release :)

I agree that the Contour button top-right works very well.

I also think it would be natural behaviour to make it switch back to the 
application, this behaviour is already known from the taskbar (click shows 
window, click again hides window), from the "show desktop" button (click shows 
desktop, another click gets your windows back again), and it would be so 
useful, for example when quickly interaction with contour, for example taking 
a note into a notes widget in the activity screen, using a calculator placed 
there, etc.

It would simply make switching back-and-forth between an App and Contour a lot 
more streamlined, while not actually introducing UI strangeness. I'd like us 
to experiment with after One is out.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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