Unmove column from right to left

Wouter van Heyst larstiq+launchpad at larstiq.dyndns.org
Thu Apr 6 19:24:27 BST 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:21:27PM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:40 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > On do, 2006-04-06 at 00:44 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > > > The recent move of the major column in the Launchpad pages from Right
> > > > to Left has been a source of (wrist) pain and consternation. Please
> > > > unmove it. For right-handed mouse users, going all the way to the Left
> > > > of the screen frequently is a huge pain, and I suppose the majority of
> > > > us here, and of the launchpad users are right handed. So please keep
> > > > it on the right.
> > >
> > > This was moved because lots of people complained about the 3-column
> > > layout. One of the reasons is that the middle column regularly iverflows
> > > on non-huge screens. However, serverl portlets are still at the right
> > > side, nullifying the effect of moving a few to the left...
> >
> > Yes, it's quite confusing to have the portlets jumping around. Hopefully
> > we will see a consistent two column layout eventually.
> 
> I hope that in the eventual version, the sidebar is on the right, for
> the reasons I explained above :)

A lot of people also read from left to right, so I'm not sure it works
like that. You can easily keep the cursor at the left hand side, no?

Wouter van Heyst



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