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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

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