Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-21 Thread Felix Akkermans
I agree on pretty much all the criticism. It's a nice aesthetic, but functionality wise I think it has to many flaws. Nice effort, but a no-go for me. On 11/20/2012 09:53 PM, Daniel Foré wrote: As I commented on the merge request I disapprove of this branch for several reasons: * The vertica

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Jaap Broekhuizen
On a practical note, how is this going to scroll? Sure, in this mockup it all perfectly fits, but what happens when "Hardware section gets more items? Does the complete view scroll, or only the seperate sections? What happens when we suddenly decide to add another section, which can evidently n

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Foré
As I commented on the merge request I disapprove of this branch for several reasons: * The vertical layout doesn't really make sense to me. Displays are typically landscape, not portrait. Remember, Switchboard is not a static thing, it's extendable meaning that we have no idea how many plugs it wi

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Cody Garver
https://code.launchpad.net/~tombeckmann/switchboard/restructure/+merge/127597 "* The vertical layout doesn't really make sense to me. * Displays are typically landscape, not portrait. This layout is going to cause unecessary amounts of scrolling and doesn't take advantage of the width of the

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread ttosttos Sa
Vertical layout is not as friendly to wrapping around plug-ins for those categories with numerous entries. Layout is also less friendly to addition of new categories or cleaner visualization when you have categories with a significant different number of plug-ins. Current horizontal layout works

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Sam Tate
@Cody, I saw that and I wondered why. It'd be good if we can get him to comment on why he Disapproved it :) On 20 November 2012 20:38, Cody Garver wrote: > This was proposed for merge before and Disapproved by DanRabbit. > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:36 PM, David Gomes wrote: > >> >obviously

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Hashem Nasarat
I prefer reading left-to-right rather than top-to-bottom: Category ItemItemItem ... _ Category ItemItemItem ... rather than Category | Category Item | Item Item | Item Item | Item I find it easier to parse and less distracting. Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Cody Garver
This was proposed for merge before and Disapproved by DanRabbit. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:36 PM, David Gomes wrote: > >obviously > I prefer this very much and don't see why not for Luna as long as no bugs > are associated with it. > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Sam Tate wrote: > >> Ho

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread David Gomes
>obviously I prefer this very much and don't see why not for Luna as long as no bugs are associated with it. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Sam Tate wrote: > How do we all feel about this new layout for Switchboard? Obviously this > isn't for Luna, but I think it's really nice, and we can swi

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Switchboard Restructure

2012-11-20 Thread Alfredo Hernández
It's great, but AFAIK any developer can program their very own plug to integrate it with Switchboard. If this is true, I think that eventually Switchboard may be a pain with external plugs --which is unlikely to happen in the current layout. mode. Anyway, I prefer this new layout, it's classier.