Yeah, I totally agree with Tim, that's the recommended way of dealing with sorting & filtering options
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Tim Peeters <tim.peet...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Looking at the screenshot you added, you may want to have a look at header > "sections". See > http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.10/Ubuntu.Components.PageHeadConfiguration/#sections-prop > > With that you can add additional options to the header divider, like the > contacts app does with All/Favorites. > I attached a screenshot and QML file that shows what it would look like. > > I'm not sure if this is the best way to go, perhaps someone from design > has better suggestions? > > Greets, > Tim. > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Robert Schroll <rschr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My app Beru has a main screen that features a list that can be sorted in >> several different ways. The sorting UI consists of a Sort toolitem that >> opens a popover with three different sorts to choose from. When the >> toolitems were in a toolbar, this worked fine. When they got moved to the >> header, the popover no longer points to the correct spot. When I reported >> this on Launchpad [1], I was told, >> >> Popovers pointing to buttons in the new header is not supported. Design >>> recommends to use a pagestack in those cases. For specific needs of an app, >>> please talk to designers for a solution >>> >> >> Is this true? Tabs are currently handled with a popover pointing to a >> button in the header, so it seems odd not to allow this mechanism for other >> buttons. I don't understand how I'm supposed to solve this with a >> pagestack. Am I really supposed to create a new page to hold a single >> option? What solution does the design team suggest? >> >> For what it's worth, I'm currently faking the pointer by putting a >> rectangle behind where I know the header item will be and pointing to >> that. It looks and works just fine [2]. >> >> Thanks, >> Robert >> >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1337699 >> [2] http://rschroll.github.io/beru/assets/ss-library-author.png >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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