[switcher] Apps in spread should have icon to help distinguish between them

Bug #1350806 reported by Andrea Cimitan
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Fix Released
Medium
Grazina
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

As summary, it is hard in spread browse between apps, many apps look the same at first glance, adding an app icon may help

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Desired design:
Add white overlay bar on top of the spread items. Anchored at the bottom of an item. Height 8 gu. Opacity 0.85.

Add button at the bottom left of the spread items above the white overlay bar. Icon height 6 gu. Left margin 1 gu. Vertically centered to the the white overlay.
UbuntuShape radius medium. BorderSource: "none".

See Right edge documentation: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1FC_-5yz5kPy_ZvTphaqxOgI5BPnALFbxRAO4eJkzlf8/edit#heading=h.rutyq59eqmc1

Tags: ota-1
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
John Lea (johnlea)
summary: - Apps in spread should have icon to help distinguish between them
+ [switcher] Apps in spread should have icon to help distinguish between
+ them
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
no longer affects: unity8
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Low → Medium
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
tags: added: ota-1
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
description: updated
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
Revision history for this message
Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote :

Need an icon for the dash in order to implement this.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
kevin gunn (kgunn72)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu RTM):
assignee: nobody → Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu RTM):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Vesa Rautiainen (vesar) wrote :

In the desktop version of the spread (included in the switcher view) we have icons for application windows and I think we should include them in the phone version as well. From the UX point of view there is not much to be designed. It's more of a visual design task to decide the appearance.

Due to the more 3d appearance on the phone I don't think the icons can be positioned the same way as in the desktop switcher which is flat and below the window. I think in the mobile case we need to overlay the icon on top of the window (bottom left corner?) and rotate and scale it together with the actual spread item. But this is to be for the visual team.

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: Vesa Rautiainen (vesar) → Alex Milazzo (digitalalex)
assignee: Alex Milazzo (digitalalex) → Grazina (boroskograzina)
no longer affects: unity8 (Ubuntu RTM)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
assignee: Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) → nobody
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