Hi Zoltan, - Case 1: Document Viewer Before migrating DocViewer to UITK 1.2, there was a list and a grid view with all the documents on the device. We were using the "MultipleSelectionListView" component, taken from address-book-app, and we did some change in order to have an equivalent for grid view.
There has been two problems then: 1) New ListItem API is different than the MultipleSelectionListView one (e.g. "selectedItems" vs "ViewItems.selectedIndices") 2) No UI guideline was available for those apps which were trying to implement a card view. We decided then to drop the grid view, waiting for a component which would have allowed us to support the two different view modes without two different codes. - Case 2: File Manager Another use case would be the file-manager-app. Currently it does not provide any support for multiple selection of items, and the grid view suffers of a massive lack of features. Moreover, it is still using the old "ListItemWithActions" component. A common API for list and grid views would help the app maintainers to stay in sync with the latest SDK version. - Styling I guess this new component should not implement any style by default. The two examples above would require similar features but different styles. It would be nice if we have an AbstractCardView component, and several CardLayout(s) in order to implement those layouts that have been approved by the UX team. One of these layouts could look as follow: (just a prototype I did some months ago, based on the new Scopes Toolkit design) https://imgur.com/xH1RlDM Cheers, Stefano 2016-03-17 1:38 GMT+01:00 Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.bal...@canonical.com>: > Hello Stefano, > > Thank you for your response. Your idea to create a grid view item similar to > the new list item is cool and we will discuss about it today with the guys. > > The driving force of the UI Toolkit development are the applications. So it > would support this idea a lot if you could describe few exact use cases > where this component would be used. > > cheers, > > bzoltan > -- 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
