Tried to implement an SBSettings type thing into the space too. A swipe to the left of the media controls is some quick setting toggles. A highlighted blue means enabled, and white means disabled (like repeat and shuffle in the music app). It is a bit crap though!!
View attachment 341780
Not to mention the issues with vibrate currently a hardware option. Which would take control? Hardware or software?
I just want to open the multitasking tab another way than clicking the button twice. Maybe the button would last a little longer then.
Except not nearly as ugg.
I was thinking more along the lines of this:
Image
Except, of course, without the folder and instead of documents you would see small app thumbnails. Basically, take the current multitask menu and instead of leaving 80% of the screen greyed out, actually utilize it to show more running apps/options.
I just want to open the multitasking tab another way than clicking the button twice. Maybe the button would last a little longer then.
you can swipe up with four fingers for it can't you?
What do you think about having an intermediate mode for document apps?
If they can have fast and slow multi-tasking swipes then fast could be a app-switcher (and leave the current document active), and slow could still go to the app-switcher by the the time you reach the upper half of the screen but get there via the app's document switcher.
So iBooks as an example a slow multi-tasking swipe could pull back from an open book to the bookshelf view keep swiping up and the whole app starts to drop back to the open apps. Similarly Pages and other documents app would transition to the documents browser, Safari to open tabs.
Then it really would be a Task-switcher not just an app-switcher.
howThe current multitasking is about to kill my home button.
What is wrong with the current multitasking?