Re: UI freeze break request: App picker

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

Screenshots, description, and a video. Thanks Florian and Carlos. These
are very helpful. I don't see any major problems for the docs.

--
Shaun

On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:32 +0200, Carlos Soriano Sánchez wrote:
> > 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
>
>
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