Re: AppMenu, Filters and HIG
Hi Claudio, On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:50 +0200, Claudio Saavedra wrote: This is the purpose of filters, but you might need to find strings that fit well in the menu. Repeating Sort by in each one of the buttons is wasting too much space. Restricting the sorting criteria might also help (for example, keep both criteria but only in one direction, etc). I tried removing the Sort By part, but that really didn't make any sense anymore. Also the words ascending and descending are quite long, not to mention other languages where they can be even longer. So I cut the sort options down to two. I'm now having: Sort By Title and Sort By Date Where Title is always ascending and Date always descending. The strings are now short enough even when translating to other languages. E.g.: Nach Titel sortieren and Nach Datum sortieren Now, my only concern is: How are Filters displayed in portrait mode? In one row or will every item be in it's own row? Thanks! Conny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: AppMenu, Filters and HIG
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 00:57 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote: Another option, if you don't find a good way to put all filters there, is to use a Change sort criteria button and pop all available options using a touch selector. Look at HildonTouchSelector, HildonPickerDialog and HildonPickerButton That would be possible too, but would require at least one extra click/touch, so I did as Claudio suggested. Still, thanks for the input :) Conny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
AppMenu, Filters and HIG
Hello again :) To not make the other threads more cluttered as they are already, here's a new one. I'm trying to another window fully conform to the Fremantle HIG, but I'm not sure that I understand the paragraph on Filters: http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/hig/html/ch04s02.html The window is a window to select a particular note from a list. The list has two columns: The title of the note and the date when it was last changed. Using a simple GtkTreeView it is displayed with a header row which offers sorting, this means the list can be sorted in four ways: - Sort By Title Ascending - Sort By Title Descending - Sort By Date Ascending - Sort By Date Descending Here is a screenshot of this window: http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window.png As you can see, I could probably display one more note, if I would remove the header row. If I read about Filters it sounds like I could/should use them for this purpose because in the documentation I read ... For example, sorting alphabetically a list of contacts I tried putting those four sorting options into a filter, but it doesn't work because the filters are shown in one row and the strings are just too long for that. This would be the result: http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window_with_long_filters.png I know that Filters are supposed to work like this, therefore I would like to get some insight on what the appropriate way is to handle this situation. 1) Keep the header row and not use Filters at all? 2) Remove one column, so that only one column is left? 3) Use filters, but different? 4) Something completely different? I know this is getting tiresome, but if I put time into the UI now, I want that it doesn't look out of place later. Thanks! Conny P.S. Removing the word By doesn't help much ;) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: AppMenu, Filters and HIG
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:24 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote: Hello again :) To not make the other threads more cluttered as they are already, here's a new one. I'm trying to another window fully conform to the Fremantle HIG, but I'm not sure that I understand the paragraph on Filters: http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/hig/html/ch04s02.html The window is a window to select a particular note from a list. The list has two columns: The title of the note and the date when it was last changed. Using a simple GtkTreeView it is displayed with a header row which offers sorting, this means the list can be sorted in four ways: - Sort By Title Ascending - Sort By Title Descending - Sort By Date Ascending - Sort By Date Descending Here is a screenshot of this window: http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window.png As you can see, I could probably display one more note, if I would remove the header row. If I read about Filters it sounds like I could/should use them for this purpose because in the documentation I read ... For example, sorting alphabetically a list of contacts I tried putting those four sorting options into a filter, but it doesn't work because the filters are shown in one row and the strings are just too long for that. This would be the result: http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window_with_long_filters.png I know that Filters are supposed to work like this, therefore I would like to get some insight on what the appropriate way is to handle this situation. 1) Keep the header row and not use Filters at all? 2) Remove one column, so that only one column is left? 3) Use filters, but different? 4) Something completely different? This is the purpose of filters, but you might need to find strings that fit well in the menu. Repeating Sort by in each one of the buttons is wasting too much space. Restricting the sorting criteria might also help (for example, keep both criteria but only in one direction, etc). Claudio ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: AppMenu, Filters and HIG
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:50:54PM +0200, Claudio Saavedra wrote: This is the purpose of filters, but you might need to find strings that fit well in the menu. Another option, if you don't find a good way to put all filters there, is to use a Change sort criteria button and pop all available options using a touch selector. Look at HildonTouchSelector, HildonPickerDialog and HildonPickerButton Berto ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
