RFC: Adjust the visual display of the categories in the "add resource window"

[Fania Bremmer]

Am 28.10.2011 14:49, schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
>> Or, as I suggested in the other mails from september something like a
>> dropdown (I know dropdows are ugly for touch, but what else is there
>> instead?).
> I think the widget that switches between pages in the About app works
> pretty well and it has two big advantages over a dropdown:
> - You can always see all categories
> - Switching categories is just one tap instead of two with the dropdown
> It's basically like tabs but with a nicer transition and thus less boring
> ;)
> Only disadvantage: We'd need to limit the number of categories. But to
> me this is actually a good thing because with too many categories,
> users won't know what to find where anyway.
> And this would have the advantage over the current implementation that
> you don't have to switch back to the overview to select another category.
+1


>>> one issue to consider (that's already come up earlier today, in fact)
> is
>>> scalability. whatever UI is offered, it needs to scale to people
> having
>>> 100s/1000s of photos, lots of documents, etc.
>> Yes sure, even with the small screensize we have... so chunking up in
>> pages in always one solution. Offering smart filter and search mechanism
>> another one. Using our knowledge about the users current activity and
>> latest added content, we can also take this into account, as Thomas
>> pointed out yesterday.
> To emphasize my point: Yes, this is where the whole strength of Nepomuk
> comes into play and we should really really leverage that potential
> anywhere
> we can. Right now, the advantages aren't really obvious yet to users,
> so we have to make them obvious.
> This still requires a lot more work, though, so I'd be okay with changing
> the interaction of our current category model until then.
+1

:)