#5872 NORM Future : Suggestion: Disable bottom two hot corners (in activity mode)

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#5872: Suggestion: Disable bottom two hot corners (in activity mode)
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  Reporter:  ghopper           |       Owner:  Eben                                   
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                                    
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Future Release                         
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:                                         
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  frame hot corner popup activity toolbar
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:                                         
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Comment(by Eben):

 Replying to [comment:6 ghopper]:
 > I agree that the menus and behaviors should be consistent across
 applications.  (For example, the sharing with list is always on the right
 and the clipboard copy/paste menu is always on the ... left?)  However, in
 applications that do not support these features, there is no need to
 display these menus.  For applications that do support these features,
 they could (should?) be part of the application toolbar.  This would make
 the sugar toolbar unnecessary for activity mode.

 The Frame has one main purpose: to serve as an element which persists
 independent of the current view (for instance, the current activity).
 This means both that it provides a place for meta-information (such as the
 list of activity participants) and a way to span the gap between any two
 activities (such as copying in one and pasting in another).  It's true
 that some activities might not support sharing, but that is the goal for
 all of them, and we hope that most will eventually.  It's true that a few
 activities might not support copy and paste, but almost all will support
 copy, and the clipboard is a fundamental part of the UI paradigm.  I think
 that these both deserve their position in the Frame.

 > I'm curious how
 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Toolbars#Hiding_Toolbars
 Toolbar Hiding] would work.  Are there any applications that take
 advantage of this yet?  The implication is that moving to the *edge* of
 the screen would produce one set of menus, but moving to the *corner* of
 the screen would produce a different set of menus.  I think that is more
 complex than it should be.

 This was an idea on the table in the early days of toolbars, which we've
 since thrown out for the reasons you mention.  The HIG is unfortunately a
 bit out of date.

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