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Speaking of which: double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this. I keep accidentally getting to the search screen. "Home" button design is partia

Speaking of which: double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this. I keep accidentally getting to the search screen. "Home" button design is partially at fault here (why it's concave?) but the whole thing is clearly an after-thought addition to the system. Long-touch or some kind of a gesture would be way more convenient.

hollerith 15y ago
>double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this. swiping up with 4 fingers works, too, at least on iPad.
- phillco 15y ago
  I can barely fit all four fingers on my iPhone's screen.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    The gesture is not enabled there anyway, it's just for the ipad.
harlanlewis 15y ago
Re "why it's concave?": Concave buttons are less likely to be pressed while sitting in your pocket - waking the screen, waking some background processes, draining the battery unnecessarily throughout the day. To solve this problem, non-concave buttons (flat or convex) live in wells. These buttons in wells carry unnecessary aesthetic weight - lots of angles and short surfaces in a small space. Apple's hardware rarely carries such adornment - they do smooth, "authentic" surfaces. As such, the Home button simply _is_ the well - and it's rarely pushed by accident.
lloeki 15y ago
> Long-touch or some kind of a gesture would be way more convenient. Precisely. And we already have the solution at hand, it just lacks implementation: swipe up from the bottom of the screen This would reveal the task switcher the same way it reveals the Notification Center, smoothly and progressively. It would thus give both instantaneous feedback and trivial cancellability. What's more, once the move is complete your finger will end up being very close to the switcher's row, so going back one step (or up to four steps, really) would be a swift swipe-tap.

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Speaking of which: double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this. I keep accidentally getting to the search screen. "Home" button design is partia

by bgarbiak 15y ago

hollerith 15y ago
>double-click is (IMHO) the worst possible solution for this. swiping up with 4 fingers works, too, at least on iPad.
- phillco 15y ago
  I can barely fit all four fingers on my iPhone's screen.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    The gesture is not enabled there anyway, it's just for the ipad.
harlanlewis 15y ago
Re "why it's concave?": Concave buttons are less likely to be pressed while sitting in your pocket - waking the screen, waking some background processes, draining the battery unnecessarily throughout the day. To solve this problem, non-concave buttons (flat or convex) live in wells. These buttons in wells carry unnecessary aesthetic weight - lots of angles and short surfaces in a small space. Apple's hardware rarely carries such adornment - they do smooth, "authentic" surfaces. As such, the Home button simply _is_ the well - and it's rarely pushed by accident.
lloeki 15y ago
> Long-touch or some kind of a gesture would be way more convenient. Precisely. And we already have the solution at hand, it just lacks implementation: swipe up from the bottom of the screen This would reveal the task switcher the same way it reveals the Notification Center, smoothly and progressively. It would thus give both instantaneous feedback and trivial cancellability. What's more, once the move is complete your finger will end up being very close to the switcher's row, so going back one step (or up to four steps, really) would be a swift swipe-tap.