[Kde-pim] GSOC Kontact Touch

Jos Poortvliet jospoortvliet at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 20:01:49 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 26 February 2013 18:56:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 18:42:16 Anders Lund wrote:
> > The way dialogs are implemented with slide-in pages instead of tabs is
> > not working very well, it is confusing and unintuitive to use in my
> > experience.
> "Dear $DEITY, please do not bring the plague of tabs to Plasma Active."
> 
> but yes, the workflow needs re-examining. we have 3 sets of tools at our
> disposal to achieve this and keep the Plasma Active design harmony:
> 
> * column based categorized lists (Add Ons, News, Settings)
> * side drawers (Files, okular active)
> * in-line UI (page stack and friends)
> 
> i don't think there will be a single silver bullet for all the ways
> dialogs and drawers are currently used in Kontact Touch, but mapping out
> the overall workflow using the above three approaches should be possible
> and result in improvements.

Sorry to bother but I can't help it - I saw this today:
https://sailfishos.org//navigation-article.html

And these guide lines for UI seem to be something we need, too... ;-)

Hugs,
Jos
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