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[Giorgio Venturi <giorgio.venturi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I totally agree with Tim, that's the recommended way of dealing with
sorting & filtering options

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> Looking at the screenshot you added, you may want to have a look at header
> "sections". See
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.10/Ubuntu.Components.PageHeadConfiguration/#sections-prop
>
> With that you can add additional options to the header divider, like the
> contacts app does with All/Favorites.
> I attached a screenshot and QML file that shows what it would look like.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best way to go, perhaps someone from design
> has better suggestions?
>
> Greets,
> Tim.
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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