[Kde-pim] Kontact Touch Mail - Initial Mockup + Git Workflow

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 15 May 2013 11:32:23 you wrote:
> > i would tend for the second, since while ui wise it kinda makes sense (the
> > column just opened is kinda the most important) it makes the logic of code
> > dramatically simpler and less error prone
> 
> With the current proposal the last page is either 3/4 of the screen or
> covers the whole screen.
> I don't see a case where it would make sense to have the last page smaller
> than the previous one.

ok, so  i changed this in kde-runtime (plasma1) and plsma-framework (plasma2)

if the page item has a big implicitWidth, when it's in the last position it 
will have a width that is
* at least columnwidth
* a multiple of columnWidth
* the nearest multiple of columnWidth

so is open now to experiments ;)

bugfixes aside, i would keep its behavior like that.
so in the case of the email, you would have the folder list a 3rd of the 
screen wide, the message list 2 3rd of the screen.
if you then click on a message, the message list gets resized to a 3rd and the 
opened message becomes 2 3rds.

if it's in 3rds, quarters etc is something that isn't decided by the 
application, but by the component, depending from the window size, dpi etc.

so for instance you would have a big screen, like the wetab, when a message is 
open, you would have a quarter for the folders, one quarter for the message 
list, 2 quarters for the open message, all visible at the same time.

on a 7 inch screen you would have only 2 columns visible at once, with 
horizontal scrolling.
on an even smaller screen, or vertical 7 inches you would see only a column at 
once, fullscreen, so always having to scroll (ie it always does the best it 
can given screen size and pixel density).

Cheers,
Marco Martin