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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

On 07/11/2011 12:07 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Tim Sutton<lists at linfiniti.com>  wrote:
>> 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!
>>
> Just another comment - I wasnt objecting the vertical scrollbars per
> se (we added them to most dialogs in Wroclaw) and I think it is good
> to make the layer props consistent with the rest.
:)  uh I was too fast :)
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> 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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