[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] changes to Chat to support OSK and portrait mode

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>
>> walter.bender at gmail.com said:
>>> (2) The chat is displayed from the top (most recent) down so that the recent
>>> messages are not occluded by the OSK and so that the recent messages are
>>> proximal to the text entry
>>
>> How well does that work out?  How long does it take to learn to read
>> bottom-to-top?  I'd expect troubles if you were distracted for a few lines
>> and then tried to catch up.
>>
>> Is that only for XO-4 or will people with non-touch XOs have to learn to read
>> backwards too?
>
> I suppose we could make it specific to tablet modes... but maybe try
> it to see if you really think it is difficult.

I wouldn't have thought having different layouts for different devices
would be confusing to users and not a great UX experience. Can we not
just move the text chat up when they keyboard appears so the last
written/received line is just above the keyboard.

Peter