Menu Flap

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

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!