#6324 NORM Never A: Accidental Hot Corners access and Frame display

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#6324: Accidental Hot Corners access and Frame display
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 Reporter:  grumbel      |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar        |     Version:                
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0             
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 I find that accessing the Sugar frame via hot corners isn't a very elegant
 solution. Fitts' Law states that those places are the easiest to reach and
 it is right. However I don't think that the frame necessarily should be
 that easy to reach, since it doesn't really contains anything that you
 would need on a frequently basis. Group, Neighbourhood and Home are
 directly reachable via the keyboard, so there isn't much need to try to
 reach them via the touchpad and application starting doesn't happen all
 that frequently and even if it does happen, it is easily to accomplish by
 pressing the Home or Frame button.

 I found myself hitting the Hot Corners a lot by accident, even so
 applications don't place icons directly there, just moving up and left to
 the menu bar will often hit the Hot Corner and the then appearing frame
 will cover the very menubar or toolbar that one intended to reach. I found
 that I lost much more time by these accidental Frame-triggers then I ever
 would win by having quick access to via Hot Corners.

 I think that Hot Corners are to important to be used by a function that
 isn't all that useful for daily use and should be left for the application
 or alternatively only use the bottom hot corners for frame triggers and
 leave the top ones for the application, so that menubar and toolbar are
 easier to reach without accidental triggering.

 It would also be helpful to have keyboard shortcuts for the frame, so that
 it could be navigated completly without accessing the touchpad.

 The frame access is of course a rather important thing of Sugar, but I
 think for a machine that is to be used for years on a daily basis it is
 important to also consider how efficient a user interface it, not just how
 easy it is for a first time user.

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