Re: UI freeze break request: App picker

[Carlos Soriano Sánchez <carlos soriano89 gmail com>]

> What are those various other changes and improvements?

- Popup never exceeds the app picker view, so there's not needed to navigate through the view to search for an application. Also, now the popup or the close button of the popup is never cut off. (Note that when there's more items in the popup that don't fit, we add a scroll bar to the popup)

- The positioning of the popup is fixed in small resolutions where the popup was displaced.

- The items inside the popup are aligned with the main app picker view. That's itself an improvement, but this solve several bugs we have previously. i.e. Misposicioned popup in the x position when the width of the screen is big and the popup are in some corner position; arrow of the popup bad drawn in a similar situation; etc.

- Changing between resolutions makes the popup to adapts the new resolution.

- As Florian said, now the icons reescale satisfying some minimums rows/columns requirements, making the overall experience better in small resolutions (like laptops, netbooks or tablets);

- Added some animations when opening folders, changing between pages, or the pages indicators itself.

- Added transitions to the overall app picker (i.e. when opening a popup, the icons now change its opacity in a transition)

- Pan action response reworked for better touch interactivity. Now instead of a smooth scrolling, we have something similar to the workspace switcher, but with a good touch response, taking into account the velocity the user gives to the action (looking forward to apply the same response to workspace switcher)

- Icons style reworked to match overall gnome-shell and to make the label below icons more readable.

Maybe I forgot something, but I think these are the most important things.

Since there are animations, a short video to see the changes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObisRbDujqw&feature=youtu.be

2013/9/1 Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> Can we get some screenshots of the pagination and a description of
> any particular behaviors?

Sure, I'm attaching two screenshots.

The first one shows the "All" section of the app picker without an
open app collection. As seen in that screenshot, the scrolled view has
been replaced with pages (icons are never cut off at the bottom, the
scrollbar on the right has been replaced with a pages indicator),
though scrolling through the application list (using the scroll wheel
or swiping the background) still works as it did in 3.8.

The second one shows the same section with an open app collection. In
contrast to 3.8, collections now open inline, and their grid is
aligned with the icons of the main grid.

> What are those various other changes and improvements?

Carlos is probably in a better position to elaborate on this, but
there are some clear improvements on smaller display sizes - while
previously we ended up with a very small number of huge icons, items
are now scaled to always display a reasonable minimum number of items
(for now: 4x4). Also folder collections now work well with those
displays, while in 3.8 they could end up being misplaced and cropped.


Florian