[Qgis-developer] QGIS mobile GSoC 2011 weekly report #6

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Marco Bernasocchi
<marco at bernawebdesign.ch> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> we discussed with Marco and we first would like to have the normal QGIS
> running on android (for tablets[say 10"], not thinking mobile phones yet)
> using the normal GUI. Almost all dialogs have vertical scrollbars, actually
> we could find only the layers properties dialog to not have it, and we
> thought that beside being a very simple solution, adding a vertical
> scrollbar to those dialogs would make them more similar to all other and
> users of small notebooks, or netbooks (try opening that dialog on an eeepc)
> would benefit as well.
> any thoughts?
> for mobile it is another story, there a new app is probably the way to go.
>
Oh yes I forgot you were targeting tables first! Thanks for the updates!

Regards

Tim

> ciao
> MArco
>
> On 07/10/2011 11:51 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marco
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Marco Bernasocchi
>> <marco at bernawebdesign.ch>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Here [0] My Report,
>>> cheers Marco
>>>
>>> [0]
>>>
>>> http://www.bernawebdesign.ch/byteblog/2011/07/10/gsoc-2011-weekly-report-6/
>>> ______
>>
>> Just reading your updates - I wonder if it wouldnt be better to have a
>> different strategy for dialogs on android. In particular they should
>> rather be simplified and aligned to the user interface norms of the
>> platform. I don't think the user is going to have a good experience
>> trying to use the gui dialogs from the desktop, and if you take that
>> approach you also add a burden on maintainers of the desktop ui to
>> understand the potential impacts of changes on the mobile platform.
>> The mobile versions of dialogs could be much much simpler with only
>> the most basic options.
>>
>> Just my 2c :-)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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