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[Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you are right. I marked the "tools" property as deprecated in the Page
documentation so it does not show up any more, but ToolbarItems and
ToolbarButton properties are still in the list of components and are not
marked as deprecated. I will fix that in the documentation. Thanks for
reporting it :)

All the bottom edge support that we have in Ubuntu.Components right now is
the Panel component, see
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.10/Ubuntu.Components.Panel/

That component is pretty basic because we are focusing on finishing other
things first (like adding all the required features to the new header), and
we like to give app developers full freedom in implementing behaviors that
we didn't even think of for the bottom edge. I have already seen some
pretty cool stuff in the dialer app and messaging app, and I've seen some
 good work on the music-app bottom edge. So use your creativity to come up
with bottom-edge behaviors for your own apps, and you can implement them
with or without using the Panel component. If you get stuck, there are
people in #ubuntu-app-devel who already worked on bottom-edge so tehy may
be able to help out.

Greets,
Tim.


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Tim Wallis <timw076@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It doesn't seem like the 14.10 developer pages say that the Toolbar is
> depreciated.  I didn't know until this email.  The Ubuntu App Design Guide
> pages don't seem to reflect that either, besides that blog post.  I may be
> just jumping the gun.  I know this is all pretty new. Great stuff by the
> way!
>
> Has the bottom edge stuff made it into the Ubuntu Components yet or am I
> just blind?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is an important heads up for app developers that are still using the
>> (now deprecated) toolbar from the Ubuntu UI Toolkit.
>>
>> The features of the (bottom) toolbar have been replaced by new features
>> added to the header a while ago. Until now, to enable the new features in
>> the header and disable the toolbars, apps had to add "useDeprecatedToolbar:
>> false" to their MainView.
>> Next week we will change the default value of the useDeprecatedToolbar
>> property in Ubuntu.Components 1.1 from true to false. So if *only* your app
>> still needs the toolbar, please add:
>>
>> useDeprecatedToolbar: true
>>
>> to your MainView to ensure it will keep working as it was. The default
>> value will not change if you are importing Ubuntu.Components 1.0. However,
>> with 1.0 you do not have access to all the newest 1.1 features we are
>> adding to the toolkit, and we recommend that you update your apps to use
>> the header for actions and no longer the toolbar. See
>> http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.10/Ubuntu.Components.PageHeadConfiguration/
>> for documentation on how to use the header.
>>
>> When you start using the new header and you feel the bottom edge of your
>> app is a bit empty, see
>> http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/loving-the-bottom-edge/ for
>> suggestions what you can do with it. :)
>>
>> Tim.
>>
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