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

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

No Walter, I never said that at all! I said that having a different
layout on one device to that of another device is not intuitive to the
user. Hal mentioned that reading the conversation upside down likely
wasn't intuitive to the user based on other experiences. I merely was
trying to suggest another alternative.