[UX] Proposal: improvements to closing apps from app-switcher

Bug #1651365 reported by Piotr Mitana
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Bug Description

It is definitely a wishlist one, but in my opinion simple to implement and worth looking at.

I actually close all the apps atfer I finish using them. Therefore I always do two swipes - from the right to bring out an app switcher and then swipe up the app to close it. I have a few ideas to improve this and brush up a bit usability of task switcher on touch.

Idea 1 - single-gesture app closing:
- User swipes from the right just as he wanted to open app switcher
- When the drag is at the state which would switch to next app immediately after relase (the simple alt-tab manner) a hint appears in the top right corner (for ex. an X symbol and arrows pointing up)
- User swipes up/down instead of continuing the movement to the left (effectively whole gesture is an "L" letter written from the right-bottom)
- App closes and user is brought to the previous app immediately
- It could be also an option to close an app and return to desktop/scopes immediately. Mabye an ability to swipe up/down during swiping from the left as one wanted to return home?

Idea 2 - closing all apps at once:
- A "close all" button at the top (or top right/left) corner
- Two or three finger swipe up/down closes all apps and returns to desktop

Revision history for this message
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

Be aware that the apps are automatically killed (suspended) in the background and consume no resources, so ts not really necessary to close them at all.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Piotr Mitana (pmitana) wrote :

I am perfectly aware of this fact, yet I am still used to close them for convenience (always starting from homescreen, after launching an app I'm always at the start screen and not for ex. in a conversation I'm not interested in at the moment - and when I need to multitask, I have 2-3 apps that I need in task switcher instead of 10). And right edge is easier accessible then the back button in top left corner - especially on pretty big Pro 5 ;)

Of course that it's not a killer feature, but a little neat thing which is probably quick and pretty easy to implement.

summary: - [UX] Proposal: imrovements to closing apps from app-switcher
+ [UX] Proposal: improvements to closing apps from app-switcher
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