New HIG draft for column-based navigation

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 12.03.2013 22:01, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 March 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I just wrote a draft for an HIG for our column-based navigation pattern
>> (the one used in Add Ons). You can find it here:
>> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development/ActiveHIG/ColumnViews
>> I plan to use a different HIG for flat (one-level) categories because in
>> that case, the whole rest of the screen is dedicated to the items in each
>> category instead of just one column (and I assume a different component is
>> used as well).
>> Comments welcome as always!
>
> thanks :) i added just a line on scalability, but i think it's fine.
>
>> @Marco: If there is a straightforward way (aka Plasma Component) to
>> implement this available, can you please put in the minimal code to
>> implement it at the code section (or send me the snippet and I'll put it
>> in)?
>
> There is PageRow (used in the addons store), but is just about arranging stuff
> in columns, those menus would still have to be created by hand (by listviews
> in scrollviews usually) I don't think is much feasible making something that
> takes even less code to do while retaining usefulness
>
> i added an example on how it can be achieved, probably is not super clear, so
> feedback on it welcome

Thanks! I've removed the "draft" indicator. We can still improve the 
implementation instructions with feedback we get once people try to 
implement it.