Understand what practical desktop usability issues exist with the current SDK
Meeting agenda and possible work items to think about:
- Investigate current apps and assess their general fitness for the Desktop.
- Based on research, figure out if we need to create a new 'use case' for a 'converged app'.
- Discuss user testing of the app, both on phablet and desktop, with Design team.
- Conduct testing of the app.
- Report bugs.
- Discuss with Design+SDK+Unity teams.
- Assign milestones to problems.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Jono Bacon
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Daniel Holbach
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Daniel Holbach
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trusty
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Notes:
issues already encountered
- bottom menu swipe difficult on a desktop
- menus on the desktop in general
- flick gesture shows the scrollbar but it is difficult to see and that makes some of
the content non-discoverable
- using standard file chooser that is expected on the desktop
- behavior of the bottom swipe menu might be changed to something else on the
desktop to make it feel more natural
- orientation API (more explicit than checking width VS height)
- meaningful QtCreator templates (ensure Ubuntu feel to them)
- experience on running on the device from QtC (occasional ssh setup issues)
- multitouch vs mouse click intereption issues (~MultiTouchPoi
touch, not on desktop)
- back button experience (already being revised by Design to "latch" the bottom pane)
- no design guidelines for desktop apps (or converged apps)
- dialog "widget" was rather inflexible and caused a lot of pain to get right
- keyboard shortcuts
- keyboard not hiding when focus changed (belive a bug is filed already)
- keyboard navigation (on roadmap this cycle)
- accessibility? (on roadmap this cycle)
- applications seem to steal touch events when they are running in a windowed
environment
- lack of emulator (in the works)
- .desktop files should launch in full-screen mode on phone, but not on .desktop
Find out if widgets will automatically change depending on the screen size / form factor
possible targets:
- shorts, checkbox (checkbox built on SDK won't be in 14.04 for a few weeks)
- gallery, notepad, mediaplayer, camera, browser are all candidates/targets for 14.04
to run better on desktop
- also great test candidates: reminders-app (evernote), music-app
Bugs or problems found by hardware certification team:
- https:/
so it was never filed as an SDK bug.
- Scroll position indicator is faint and hard to see (not filed)
- Toolbar auto-hides even if lock: true (this was fixed in the SDK)
- No easy way to add keyboard shortcuts/
Work Items
Work items for ubuntu-13.12:
[roadmr] Provide list of relevant bugs which were already filed: TODO
[bregma] share notes about initial research of desktop usability of SDK/UI Toolkit (https:/
[dholbach] reach out to accessibility team when conducting user tests: TODO
[dholbach] set up call for testing: TODO
[karni] once we have feedback, summarise: TODO
[dholbach] once we have feedback, summarise: TODO
[bregma] once we have feedback, summarise: TODO
[dholbach] set up call with sdk/design/ui team: TODO
[dholbach] make sure bugs are milestoned: TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
