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[Stefano Verzegnassi <stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Evan!

2016-03-16 4:41 GMT+01:00 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)

Good to hear. Having similar opinions on this should make the redesign
of the UI easier (and faster).

> 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.

If I recall correctly, we've been talking about moving the tabs page
to the bottom edge. In the previous mail I proposed to move the "show
OSK" action instead.
Anyway, thinking at the whole convergence story, there may be some
"pitfall" in the moment the app is running on a tablet, with the
desktop UI (i.e. multi-window mode), without an attached keyboard. In
that case, it might be hard to trigger the bottom edge gesture.
This is a point we should ask the design team, I guess...

> 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!

Actually there's still the keyboard button, which may be redesigned
(e.g. remove the orange border - as in screenshot no. [1]).
The proposal of using a bottom edge for the OSK is meant to remove the
last button when running on a desktop. There are anyway valid reasons
for which we may still want to keep it, though (see above).

> 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
> :)

No problem, really! We're all busy! US High school is much different
than the Italian one but, as a university student, I can understand
what you mean. :)

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

I've been talking about this with Roman Shchekin (my mate in the
DocViewer team). He suggested to re-think at the tab list (on a phone
only a single tab "hint" is visible), but he shares your same
feelings.
I will spent some time on it during the week. Perhaps we could show a
button in the header which shows a popover with the list of the
currently active consoles. I will push a follow-up on this thread, if
I get something interesting from my tests.


Have a great week, Evan!

Cheers,
Stefano