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[Stefano Verzegnassi <stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

We're expecting to see the new BQ tablet released in April/May, so we
should start implementing a tablet/desktop UI for terminal-app.

At the same time, the current phone UI look a bit aged and we have
gathered a few negative opinion about its usability.


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- A new UI for the phone mode

Last week, I had a chat with Alan, who proposed to take inspiration
from JuiceSSH (https://juicessh.com/), an Android app.
The big issue here is with the Ubuntu Keyboard, which is by far tall
than the Android counterpart.

See screenshots here:
[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4kAplbFcE6YjZXb25sdVlBVTA/view?usp=sharing
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4kAplbFcE6bjl6ZUtCYWxUUkk/view?usp=sharing

I'd like to hear some further opinion from you.

Anyway, I believe that two changes we could consider to do anyway are:
1) Remove the Ubuntu Orange border from the floating buttons. It does
not fit with the current guidelines.
2) It has been reported that it's hard to read the content below those
buttons. We may consider to provide just a single floating button (for
the opened tabs - settings would be a sub-page of the tabs view). We
would use a bottom edge gesture for the "show on-screen keyboard"
action.

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- A new UI for the desktop mode

I've been working on a prototype during this weekend.

Screenshots:
[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4kAplbFcE6ZHJxYU9pWFQ1VDA/view?usp=sharing
[4] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4kAplbFcE6OTJlSGVjVXd0enc/view?usp=sharing
[5] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By4kAplbFcE6WXlCWkphTnVodDg/view?usp=sharing

Not much to say here, it's just the usual UI of a desktop terminal emulator.
The only relevant thing is the usage of the title-bar color. It would
be great if we could programmatically get the bar color from unity
8...


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In summary, I believe we should remove completely the floating buttons
from the interface, since they are not really consistent with the
Ubuntu design.
TBH the UI in the screenshot [3] does not look so bad even in the
phone mode: I think we could consider it (with some change) as an
option.

Any opinion?


Cheers,
Stefano