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

[Tim Sutton]

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.

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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>>
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