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Re: Back button for switchboard

 

+1 for the standardisation.
El 25/11/2012 00:32, "Cassidy James" <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> It would also be interesting to look at standardizing that sort of button.
> iOS has its back button like that iirc, and Android has what they call an
> "up" button that is standardized and provides a similar behavior. If we
> were to go this route, it'd need to be written into the HIG since it
> deviates from our current story of only having icons in the toolbar. Which
> is okay as long as it's specific and has a clear use case.
>
> Something like: "A back button is a toolbar button with the text of the
> page the user will be going back to if they click it. It is always at the
> far left of the toolbar, has a raised appearance with an arrow shape, and
> does not contain an icon. This button should only appear when there is a
> main view of an app to go back to."
>
> That's just a rough stream of thought as an example of what we could put
> in the HIG. We could then add it into Granite to get the styling and
> behavior perfect (and to prevent duplicate work from devs). This would all
> be post-Luna of course.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff <
> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can add that GNOME has recently introduced a "show all" icon.
>
> The icon shown in the mockup is not a simple tweak, so let's leave it
> as is till Luna+1. We're past feature freeze after all.
>
> 2012/11/23 Alfredo Hernández **:
> > It's much better than the current implementation. IMHO, a 'Show all'
> button
> > gives more information this a home button.
> >
> > El 23/11/2012 14:58, "Jaap Broekhuizen" ** escribió:
> >>
> >> I saw Andrea did a proposal for adding a nice back button on
> switchboard a
> >> few months ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard/+bug/1039269
> >>
> >> I think this is a good idea to implement, because it looks great, and
> the
> >> current implementation with a button that keeps switching between an
> arrow
> >> and a "home" button is a bit weird. I had to think about how that
> worked and
> >> i don't think we want that :)
> >>
> >> So what do you guys think of this?
> >>
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