On 03.06.2012 22:32, Marco Martin wrote:
little historical note: i actualy taken the idea of the pullable flaps that
are in the active workspace then gone in apps exactly from kontact mobile :p
*gg* Luckily we are in the F/OSS world, where creating things based on other
people's ideas in encouraged instead of punished ;)
I think giving the possibility to apps to give some form of pullable menu in
this way could make sense (even coming from an action collection defined in
xmlgui)
Yes.
but that said it should be pretty clear that is something that should be in
general avoided, kinda a last resource for applications that really are more
complex than the usual ones (and yes, i think there is place for slightly more
complex apps in active, to make place to tess toy-ish even if less confortable
use cases)
there could be a list of conditions to satisfy to say only then a menu like
that becomes encouraged...
Definitely, that's what I was trying to say :)
So I will try to drive that point home as clearly as possible in the HIG.
I agree that kontact touch is not optimal.
also note that it has been written before everything else, so nothing was
available yet: neither artwork, components, libraries etc (and considered that
the result is quite remarkable, i have to say to the kontact devs ;), so it
really evolved in its own way (it still even uses proxy widgets for the
calendar, just transplanted from the desktop version, that is not really the
best).
Sure, given the circumstances, the Kontact Touch team did an awesome job! I just
wouldn't want to define the current state of the application as the gold standard.
it would be quite awesome if there will be a bit more investment on kontact
mobile in the future, to make it simpler and more integrated with the rest ;)
I hope so, too. With some polishing, it can be a great application!
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