Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-12 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Martin, Mikael, Kondou et al. Thanks for your replies: the debate is getting interesting! I think there are two approaches to UI consistency. One is that an app should have a consistent UI across platforms. Thus a user using the same app on multiple platforms will find his way around eas

Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-12 Thread Martin Kolman
12.10.2013 17:51, Mikael Hermansson: And trying to make good UI that "works on all platforms" is just wrong way of thinking IMHO. Its better split UI part from the logic and share as much as possible between the platforms but still use "native ui" for the platform used. While this works quite nic

Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-12 Thread Mikael Hermansson
IMHO: * Opera on N9 does not use tabs * N9 own browser does not use tabs. I do not see any problem with that. I definitivly prefer PulleyMenus or gridview/swipe instead of I "to many buttons or tabs" Think different. Think new... And trying to make good UI that "works on all platforms" is ju

Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-12 Thread Kondou
> It is a design decision not to have tabs in Sailfish. Depending on the role > of your tabs, > you can use a pulley or attached page. I'm wondering a bit, how a browser should work without tabs (except for only having one page open at a time). ___ Sai

Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-12 Thread christopher . lamb
Salut Lucien Thanks for your answer I dreading that the absence of tabs was a design decision rather than a sign of work in progress. While I understand this from a pure design point of view (Sailfish being all swippy), I think it will cause problems for application developers creating a

Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-11 Thread Lucien XU
Hi Christopher ! It is a design decision not to have tabs in Sailfish. Depending on the role of your tabs, you can use a pulley or attached page. If you have an important page (like a main page) + several less important pages (help, settings), better use a pulley-menu[1] to access these pages.

[SailfishDevel] Sailfish User Interface: Tabs

2013-10-10 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi all I can't find anything in the Sailfish Silica component set that resembles a tab. So the question is: Will a tab like component be coming in a later release of Silica? Or is there an alternative navigation concept I should be using in preference to tabs. If so what is it? Chris