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

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday 15 May 2013 14:28:50 Marco Martin wrote:

> 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).

Sounds pretty sensible to me. Of course we can't tell yet what people might 
want to do with a column-based view in the future, but this approach should 
make possible most of what actually makes sense, and it sounds like it adapts 
to different screen sizes / pixel densities very well.
Great!