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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well you read it the same way whether it's on the screen or not rather
> than having it top down for one type of device and bottom up for the
> others.
>
> Peter

So what you are claiming is that your different layout is more
intuitive than my different layout.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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