Re: Touchscreen Compatibility [was: Feature proposal: combined system status menu]

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists gnome r-finger com> wrote:
...
> As a basic, but I think pertinent, example -- if one of the reasons for
> the current design being touch unfriendly is that certain UI elements
> are too small (which is the most rudimentary problem any UI moving from
> pointer to touch faces), making them bigger will result in
> non-negligeable loss of screen realestate on small laptop screens, and
> deeper the touch improvements will go, the more significant this will
> be. It worries me :-)

Did you look at the wireframes? We're not making the top bar any
taller, and it won't take space away from applications. The only
change to the size of the items in the top bar is to make them wider
(although the icons will stay the same size).

This proposal is designed to provide a better experience when using
pointer input (indeed, I listed a whole series of reasons that it will
be an improvement in that context).

Allan