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According to the screenshots, the spotlight icon is no longer on the top right, getting shuffled over to the left by presumably a new icon to invoke notification center.

That's a really bad choice. The corners are the click targets fastest to reach (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law ), and demoting searching in favor of 'reading messages that have popped up before' doesn't strike me as quite well-balanced.

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Command-Space opens spotlight, and if you're gonna search, you might as well already have your hand on they keyboard.

I actually like it better -- I'm much more likely to activate notifications with a mouse, so I'd much rather have that be the "bigger" target.

It gets worse; can also call it up with a two-finger swipe to the left. Not sure why they're so intent on overloading that gesture.

Two fingers in SL:

* Scroll.

Two fingers in ML:

* Scroll

* or back/forward

* or Notification Center

It looks like the two fingers have to come in from the right side of the scroll area (like pulling down on the top of the screen--the right side in this case), so it's distinct from the other meanings.

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