Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-07-28 Thread Andrea Bernabei
Hi Cos, have a look at this :) https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/Ubuntu.Layouts.ConditionalLayout/ On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Cos64 co...@staticdot.com wrote: On 18.06.2015 10:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hey there, (I hope some of the designers are on this list

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-07-28 Thread Cos64
On 28.07.2015 15:20, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le 27/07/2015 19:51, Cos64 a écrit : My question is: how can I make sure my UI looks good on any device? If I use 50 units, it won't fit on Aquaris E4.5. If I use 40, there will be wasted space on tablets. Is it possible to make 3 layouts for the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-07-28 Thread Cos64
On 28.07.2015 13:59, Andrea Bernabei wrote: Hi Cos, have a look at this :) https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/Ubuntu.Layouts.ConditionalLayout/ Thanks Andrea, This helped a lot! Also the API docs for Ubuntu.Layouts.Layouts provide some nice explanation. Cos -- Mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-07-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 27/07/2015 19:51, Cos64 a écrit : My question is: how can I make sure my UI looks good on any device? If I use 50 units, it won't fit on Aquaris E4.5. If I use 40, there will be wasted space on tablets. Is it possible to make 3 layouts for the same view (one for 40, one for 50 and one for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-07-27 Thread Cos64
On 18.06.2015 10:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hey there, (I hope some of the designers are on this list ;-) I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2] and I'm trying to make sense of what is described. The guidelines say that a panel should be 40/50/90 gus.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Alan Bell wrote on 18/06/15 13:06: … The better way of doing it is to show the user a bunch of options and get them to touch the row that looks about right for them: About right for what? The answer will be different depending on whether the screen is displaying, for example, a grid of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-21 Thread Alan Bell
On 21/06/15 12:34, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Alan Bell wrote on 18/06/15 13:06: … The better way of doing it is to show the user a bunch of options and get them to touch the row that looks about right for them: About right for what? The answer will be different depending on whether the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 13:56 +0300 schrieb Alberto Mardegan: Now, suppose that I have a huge 16:9 tablet with a 20 diagonal. From the blog post, I understand that either the UI elements will be huge, defeating the point of having a big tablet and contradicting the whole idea of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Andrea Cimitan
On 18/06/15 12:10, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 13:56 +0300 schrieb Alberto Mardegan: Now, suppose that I have a huge 16:9 tablet with a 20 diagonal. From the blog post, I understand that either the UI elements will be huge, defeating the point of having a big

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 18.06.2015 14:35, Oliver Grawert wrote: as i said, in the case of phones we can actually compute the right value in advance since we have both values (physical size and density) ... we cant do that on devices we provide generic images for like laptops if we dont offer an image per model ...

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 12:17 +0100 schrieb Andrea Cimitan: On 18/06/15 12:10, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 13:56 +0300 schrieb Alberto Mardegan: Now, suppose that I have a huge 16:9 tablet with a 20 diagonal. From the blog post, I understand that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 12:15 +0100 schrieb Alan Bell: On 18/06/15 10:00, Oliver Grawert wrote: what really bothers me about this is that we don't take the HW capabilities of the panel into account at all but instead take a setting that fits all without the ability to adjust ...

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Alan Bell
On 18/06/15 12:40, Oliver Grawert wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DeprecatedPorting#Screen_Pixel_Ratio shows how exactly the grid units for a device are to be computed ... the problem is that we don't really get the pixel density from any system info here ... ciao oli yeah I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Alan Bell
On 18/06/15 10:00, Oliver Grawert wrote: what really bothers me about this is that we don't take the HW capabilities of the panel into account at all but instead take a setting that fits all without the ability to adjust ... additionally we don't take into account the hardware capabilities of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Christian Dywan
That's what they thought back in the days of DPI. Short answer: No, you won't get correct numbers. Am Do, 18. Jun, 2015 um 8:11 schrieb Alberto Mardegan alberto.marde...@canonical.com: On 18.06.2015 14:35, Oliver Grawert wrote: as i said, in the case of phones we can actually compute the

[Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey there, (I hope some of the designers are on this list ;-) I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2] and I'm trying to make sense of what is described. The guidelines say that a panel should be 40/50/90 gus. What happens if I'm using an application in window

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 18.06.2015 10:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2] and I'm trying to make sense of what is described. I'm also quite confused, especially about this: ...if the screen width can not divide by the desired number of Grid Units (40,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Andrea Cimitan
On 18/06/15 09:02, Alberto Mardegan wrote: On 18.06.2015 10:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2] and I'm trying to make sense of what is described. I'm also quite confused, especially about this: ...if the screen width can not

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 09:52 +0200 schrieb Sebastien Bacher: Hey there, (I hope some of the designers are on this list ;-) I've been reading the design blog entries about the grid system [1] [2] and I'm trying to make sense of what is described. what really bothers me about

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Grid system's question

2015-06-18 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 18.06.2015 12:36, Andrea Cimitan wrote: in the case of devices that cannot be divided by this desired number of grid units (bq 4.5, meizu mx4, nexus 4, nexus 7 for example have this problem, while the new bq 5 should be fine if I remember) we will try to add a black border that will be