Dash bullet expansion is confusing and difficult to discover

Bug #1261300 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Ubuntu UX
Fix Released
Low
James Mulholland
Unity
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Michał Sawicz

Bug Description

Section bullets are hard to discover and confusing, in both unity 7 and 8.

Unity7+8: A small set of applications/icons are shown under each heading making it look like that heading is already fully expanded. Result: The user never thinks to tap on the heading (like "Installed") again to see more apps/icons.

Unity 8: Arrows next to headings are misleading:
Collapsed: Heading v
Expanded: Heading ^
Again, the down arrow suggests the list is already fully expanded so users don't think to tap on it again to further expand the list. Many people will expect the more familiar convention:
Collapsed: Heading >
Expanded: Heading v

On a touch image this leads to simple but frustrating problems like the user never finding "System Settings". Because it's non-obvious they need to tap on "Applications" which looks like it's already expanded.

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Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Incomplete why?

Changed in unity8:
status: Incomplete → New
description: updated
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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

This will go away soon with the new designs using see more/less

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in unity8:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Andrea Cimitan (cimi)
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
assignee: Andrea Cimitan (cimi) → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
importance: Undecided → High
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 7.90+14.10.20140724.1-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (7.90+14.10.20140724.1-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * properly parent launcher items (LP: #1347902)

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Move the PyDev project files to the root, supporting .py scripts
    outside of tests/autopilot. Add Autopilot Run and List launch
    configurations to easily support debugging in Eclipse. Use
    add_unity8_mock macro in the Telephony plugin.
  * Drop FilterGrid and refactor height animations in GenericScopeView.
    Also implement forced category expansion. (LP: #1326470)
  * Move expansion button from section header to category footer. (LP:
    #1261300)
  * Fix expect-sigstop enviroment variable name. (LP: #1346819)
  * Make headerless categories easier Instead of having no header
    category (which is a bit confusing since the LVWPH code was designed
    so that when a category has no header it is because it shares the
    category with the previous one) what we have for headerless
    categories is a header of height 0, this way everything works as it
    should and results in cleaner code in the LVWPH and in
    GenericScopeView
  * Add support for header links.
  * Add dash PageHeader styling.

  [ Albert Astals ]
  * Make headerless categories easier Instead of having no header
    category (which is a bit confusing since the LVWPH code was designed
    so that when a category has no header it is because it shares the
    category with the previous one) what we have for headerless
    categories is a header of height 0, this way everything works as it
    should and results in cleaner code in the LVWPH and in
    GenericScopeView
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:41:29 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → James Mulholland (jamesjosephmulholland)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Undecided → Low
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: needs-design
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
importance: Undecided → High
no longer affects: unity8
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