[Sugar-devel] About speak and other activities GTK3/HIG

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Calzada <ariel.calzada at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> *HIG/Touchscreen
>
> The main concern is that the OSK hides the interface and doesn’t let the
> textbox be visible for the user. We think that a possible solution should
> be making OSK has an inputbox above that which displays the inserted text,
> and thus the speak interface should be shrinked. But this has to be
> analyzed because should be fixed upstream. As this is transversal to all
> the activities that could have input text.*
>

Yes. The solution is not easy and is difficult have a general solution
right now.
In general, we have two different cases:
* activities with a scrolled area in the canvas (Browse, Read, Write)
* activities without a scrolled area (clock, speak)

We can shrink the scrolled area to use only the available space and move
the content to guarantee the focused content is visible. We are trying to
do this in Write activity by example.

In the cases without a scrolled area, probably is better resize the canvas,
like when er rotate the screen.
This give us 4 possible screen sizes horizontal, vertical (rotated),
horizontal with osk, vertical with osk.

In a ideal world, we should be able to resize the canvas only when the user
is working on the canvas, if the user is editing the title or the
description (in the toolbar) that should not be needed.

Gary, do you agree with all this?

Gonzalo
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