On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, that's the only thing you changed about the properties, but > hardly the only thing you changed.
yes that's what I meant > It took me a while to figure out how to arrange things in a relative > view. THAT has certainly changed! We're still going to tweak that UI, and we also want to better display the relationship between items for existing views. > For the better, certainly -- but it is very hard to figure out. It's > hard to figure out why dragging things in most positions doesn't work > -- that you have to go to that grid, which at first doesn't seem to be > what you are looking for. > > That is, while the new functionality is much cleaner and more usable > -- it is also much less discoverable. I don't have a solution, other > than having some highly-visible detailed documentation. > > The meaning of the different positions on that grid I also find > confusing -- but the way it shows you the attributes it sets makes > that aspect discoverable. In fact, were it not for that, I'm not sure > I ever would have figured it out, and would have just ignored the > whole thing, and edited the XML for everything. Just to illustrate the > value of "discoverable".... we definitively value comments like this, and as I said above we're going to tweak this ui. > The issue with the "missing" properties view is much the same deal. > The forced properties view was indeed, as you put it, "very annoying". > But it was also very obvious. Yes that is a good point. We're toying with the idea of creating a "layout" perspective that puts the proper views in by default. Switching perspective is a bit annoying too though. Xav -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
