Kontact Touch on larger screens, flaps wider hack

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Thu May 5 13:33:35 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:43:06 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>   Me and my ideapad with Kontact Touch were alone on a train...
> Because of QML I could do a quick hack to address a major usability
> problem: It is too hard to hit the flaps on the left.
> 
> The changes outlined at the bottom will make the flaps slightly wider and
> the  interface uglier, but for me this is a large usability gain. This
> works a lot better on the n900 or HTC Touch Pro2 because someone can slide
> in from the left side. For whatever reasons this does not work on the
> ideapad. I don't know about the exopc slate or the weetab, but I guess a
> slightly larger flap can also help there.

I haven't tested the changes, but widening the flaps seems counter-intuitive 
to me. I'm running Kontact Touch on a Wepad, and the biggest UI problems are:

- flaps too wide, hard to reach the second column
- items too high, screen space wasted

Now I know those come mainly from the vastly different DPI values on the N900 
and the Wetab, so we'd need some kind of flexible mechanism here, rather than 
hardcoding values.

Puzzles me though that you experience the exact difference than I do, while 
the IdeaPad and the WeTab are pretty similar in resolution and DPI. Maybe I'm 
misunderstanding something?

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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