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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

And why is moving the text chat not a different layout? I don't follow
your logic.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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