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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd also like to see some official opinions from the design team about all
of this. Solid Explorer (the best file manager on Android) uses a single
view rather than a page stack, and it works very well, but I have no
opinion about whether a page stack is good or bad for a file manager. It
seems like it might be appropriate for a file manager, but it also might
not be.


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Michael Spencer <spencers1993@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 06/26/2013 08:16 AM, Daniel Clem wrote:
>
> I personally would prefer the page stack view for things like file
> explorer/manager. Where on Android you use the back button, with stacking
> as I understand, you back up by tapping the titles at the top right? Very
> elegant if I am understanding the design specs correctly. Can this be
> adjusted to be used for other areas as well, like in the gallery app, it
> requires the back button hidden within the toolbar and just feels slow and
> less smooth and elegant over all.
>
>
> Although the page stack view is nice as it integrates well, it does
> require more memory. I ran some tests for the File manager, and each new
> page on the page stack takes 2MB. This results in about twice as much
> memory (50MB versus 27MB) for a deeply nested folder. I don't know how
> important this is.
>
> Currently, the File manager basically emulates the page stack by having a
> back button that acts as the back button would in a page stack.
>
> About the back button, I really like the idea of placing it in the header,
> as it seems to make more sense. There was a discussion on this mailing list
> recently, and I suggested putting it there. In the design FAQs, they
> mentioned that they are working on a better page stack back button [1], so
> hopefully this gets addressed.
>
> [1] http://design.ubuntu.com/apps/get-started/faqs
>
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Sincerely,
    Josh