[UX] Proposal: improvements to closing apps from app-switcher
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Canonical System Image |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
| Ubuntu UX |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
It is definitely a wishlist one, but in my opinion simple to implement and worth looking at.
I actually close all the apps atfer I finish using them. Therefore I always do two swipes - from the right to bring out an app switcher and then swipe up the app to close it. I have a few ideas to improve this and brush up a bit usability of task switcher on touch.
Idea 1 - single-gesture app closing:
- User swipes from the right just as he wanted to open app switcher
- When the drag is at the state which would switch to next app immediately after relase (the simple alt-tab manner) a hint appears in the top right corner (for ex. an X symbol and arrows pointing up)
- User swipes up/down instead of continuing the movement to the left (effectively whole gesture is an "L" letter written from the right-bottom)
- App closes and user is brought to the previous app immediately
- It could be also an option to close an app and return to desktop/scopes immediately. Mabye an ability to swipe up/down during swiping from the left as one wanted to return home?
Idea 2 - closing all apps at once:
- A "close all" button at the top (or top right/left) corner
- Two or three finger swipe up/down closes all apps and returns to desktop
| Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Piotr Mitana (pmitana) wrote | #2 |
| summary: |
- [UX] Proposal: imrovements to closing apps from app-switcher + [UX] Proposal: improvements to closing apps from app-switcher |
Be aware that the apps are automatically killed (suspended) in the background and consume no resources, so ts not really necessary to close them at all.