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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Andrew,

I will ping the design team and check with the rest of the SDK guys 
today this case. Sounds a solid use case, let's see what others have to say.

See you on IRC,

bzoltan

On 17/03/16 03:27, Andrew Hayzen wrote:
> Hi Zoltan,
>
> The music-app heavily uses GridView's and we currently have a custom 
> 'Card' component [0], which does not support keyboard shortcuts, 
> multi-selection, actions etc (think of things like multi-selecting 
> albums to play or queue). Furthermore we did start investigating it we 
> could move it to a SlotLayout but that has not been implemented yet, 
> so a UITK optimised solution would be preferred :-)
>
> It would be great to see such a component in the UITK, feel free to 
> ping me on IRC if you want to discuss in greater detail.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> 0 - 
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~music-app-dev/music-app/trunk/view/head:/app/components/Delegates/Card.qml 
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Emusic-app-dev/music-app/trunk/view/head:/app/components/Delegates/Card.qml>
>
> On 17 March 2016 at 00:38, Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Stefano,
>
>     Thank you for your response. Your idea to create a grid view item
>     similar to the new list item is cool and we will discuss about it
>     today with the guys.
>
>     The driving force of the UI Toolkit development are the
>     applications. So it would support this idea a lot if you could
>     describe few exact use cases where this component would be used.
>
>     cheers,
>
>     bzoltan
>
>
>     On 16/03/16 21:08, Stefano Verzegnassi wrote:
>
>         Hi Zoltan,
>
>         Thanks for sharing those informations... I'm looking forward
>         for the
>         new components.
>
>         However, there's a request/idea I'd like to propose.
>
>         With UITK 1.2 a new ListItem component has been introduced. It
>         provides an attached property which makes life easier when we
>         have to
>         deal with dragging gestures, items selection, and so on...
>         I would like to know if there's some plan for having a similar
>         component for grid views - let's call it AbstractCardItem - which
>         provides the same helpers.
>
>         Cheers,
>         Stefano
>
>         2016-03-16 19:20 GMT+01:00 Zoltán Balogh
>         <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>             hi all,
>
>             I wrote up few thoughts about the plans of the SDK team
>             for the upcoming
>             cycle:
>             https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/03/16/planning-the-sdk-16-10/
>
>             Nothing is carved to marble, so if you have comments,
>             ideas or requests
>             please tell us.
>
>             cheers,
>
>             bzoltan
>
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