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

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 -- Mail

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 fo

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 wrote: > On 18.06.2015 10:52, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Hey there, > > > > (I hope some of the designers are on this list ;-) > > > > I'v

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

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 scre

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 freq

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 : 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

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 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

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 adjus

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 unde

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 tab

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 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 > ide

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

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 d

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 a

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 (4

[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 mod