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Re: [Usability] Annoying hot spot location

I also had the same experience with the Hot Corner, usually upon trying to reach the Close Button on a Window.

Usually you would just throw the Mouse to the upper-left Corner and move down a bit to get to the Close Button, so i figured maybe a little delay for the activation could solve those Problems without having to mess with the UI itself.

It could be made available as a variable value to hook on with Applications like Gnome Shell Tweak Tool ( i believe it's called something like this) cause if your Close Buttons live on the left side you already tweaked the Shell and thus would also be experienced enough to figure out the Setting for the Activation Delay. For "Average Users" the Setting would remain unchangeable and all Settings would stay just the way they are.

2011/11/22 Gavin Engel <gavin engel com>
I also don't like the hotspot in the upper left (I'm always hitting it when switching Chrome tabs, and I also moved my close/min/max to the left).  If I had a choice, I'd move it to the bottom-left.  I tried using this extension to move it to the top-right:

... but it doesn't quite work in Linux Mint 12, so I deactivated it.  


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Allan Caeg <allancaeg ubuntu com> wrote:
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Ignore previous message. Got the wrong address

On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Allan Caeg <allancaeg ubuntu com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> On 20 Nov 2011, at 19:51, Bill Wohler wrote:
>>
>>> One gentleman noted on the Debian mailing list that the current hot spot
>>> location is annoying because whether you have a full-screen window, or a
>>> window in the upper left-hand corner, an application's File menu or
>>> browser's back button is very close by. This is a big problem. I
>>> accidently hit the hot spot dozens of times a day as well, so his post
>>> moved me to forward his idea to you. He suggested moving the hot spot to
>>> the lower left, which makes sense since the hot spot for the
>>> notifications in the lower right.
>>
>> This certainly sounds like an annoyance. Of course, the reason the top-left corner was chosen is because that's where the Activities menu is, which makes the hot corner behaviour more discoverable than it might be otherwise. So I'm not sure how the designers would feel about simply moving it to a different corner, but that's not to say there isn't a good solution to be reached.
>>
>> To ensure it gets best attention, I would suggest either filing a report against gnome-shell at bugzilla.gnome.org, or sending your concerns to the gnome-shell gnome org mailing list instead, where more of the gnome-shell designers and developers hang out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Calum.
>>
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