On 03.06.2012 22:32, Marco Martin wrote:
little historical note: i actualy taken the idea of the pullable flaps that are in the active workspace then gone in apps exactly from kontact mobile :p
*gg* Luckily we are in the F/OSS world, where creating things based on other people's ideas in encouraged instead of punished ;)
I think giving the possibility to apps to give some form of pullable menu in this way could make sense (even coming from an action collection defined in xmlgui)
Yes.
but that said it should be pretty clear that is something that should be in general avoided, kinda a last resource for applications that really are more complex than the usual ones (and yes, i think there is place for slightly more complex apps in active, to make place to tess toy-ish even if less confortable use cases) there could be a list of conditions to satisfy to say only then a menu like that becomes encouraged...
Definitely, that's what I was trying to say :) So I will try to drive that point home as clearly as possible in the HIG.
I agree that kontact touch is not optimal. also note that it has been written before everything else, so nothing was available yet: neither artwork, components, libraries etc (and considered that the result is quite remarkable, i have to say to the kontact devs ;), so it really evolved in its own way (it still even uses proxy widgets for the calendar, just transplanted from the desktop version, that is not really the best).
Sure, given the circumstances, the Kontact Touch team did an awesome job! I just wouldn't want to define the current state of the application as the "gold standard".
it would be quite awesome if there will be a bit more investment on kontact mobile in the future, to make it simpler and more integrated with the rest ;)
I hope so, too. With some polishing, it can be a great application! _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active