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[Evan McIntire <mcintire.evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Stefano!

I agree with Alan and the idea of taking inspiration from JuiceSSH (I use
it on my phone, personally)

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I didn't realize the keyboard was that tall on mobile, wow.

I know we mentioned the idea of swiping from the bottom before, are we sure
it'd work well? If so, then it'd probably be pretty good, and if not, maybe
we could consider some sort of gesture to reveal the buttons? Not sure how
good that would feel, but it's something to consider.

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That prototype is looking nice! I like how it does away with the circular
buttons, they did feel weird on desktop, it's a nice looking change!

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Overall, I'd say keep it up! Im sorry Im not around too much - school and
life are a lot to deal with this time of year, so I don't have a ton of
time/energy for development. I saw you put some new branches up, so I'll
try and provide feedback on them (hopefully) tomorrow, but Im sure they're
good :)

Also, I do agree - #3 looks pretty good as a UI for both, with some
tweaking it could be amazing

Cheers,
Evan

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:13 PM Stefano Verzegnassi <stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> ====
>
> - 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.
>
> ====
>
> - 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...
>
>
> ====
>
> 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
>
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