[NEWS] Quick Tip: Minimizing notifications in webOS 1.2

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Quick Tip: Minimizing notifications in webOS 1.2

By Derek Kessler | Friday, Oct 2, 2009 | 28 comments »

If youre like me, webOS 1.2 threw you for a tiny loop with a change in the gesture behavior. It used to be that you could minimize pop-up notifications by swiping down over the notification box, but this no longer works. There are still a number of ways to minimize your notifications:

• Swipe up, though this also will force your current app into card view.
• Back or forward swipe in the gesture area (either direction on one side of the center button); as long as a notification is up this will not trigger the appropriate response in the current app, it will only minimize the notification.
• Press the center button, which unlike the swipe up does not push back into card view.

As before, you can still dismiss notifications with a swipe across the notification in either direction. The down swipe is now used to bring an app in card view into focus. The down swipe works in both long form (drag the card down to the bottom of the screen) and short (just swipe down over your docked quick launch icons).
So why did that change? We suspect that Palm was driving for consistency: swipe up to enter card view, swipe down to exit.


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http://www.precentral.net/quick-tip-minimizing-notifications-webos-12