Unmove column from right to left

[Carthik Sharma]

On 4/6/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq+launchpad at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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?

As I mentioned before, the scroll bar is on the left, and the pages at
launchpad never will fit into just one screenfull. So I have to travel
longer to get to the left menu. This is a pet peeve with gmail too,
for me.

As for the overflow issue, isn't that something that can be fixed by
using CSS to prevent such overflows?

Carthik.
> Wouter van Heyst
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