Towards 4.3: TAG management

[Davide DB]

2014-08-20 16:17 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
>
> In a way you want this to be always visible - but it can't take much
> screen real estate. This is a tough one.
> On reasonably big screens it would be easy to have it just as a single
> line at the top of the dive list. But on small screens (like the 1366x768
> screens that we just talked about a few days ago) this is going to be
> tight. I'm not sure there is a perfect solution that will make everyone
> happy.

Yes, space is the main problem...


I lost yesterday sketch project... Ah! open source projects ;)

I did not like the search canvas position being so in the middle so I
gave another try on layout.
As I wrote I guess that once a user filters and finds a dive or a
subset, he probably wants to maintain the full view.
So we are forced to remove some space somewhere...

I see a lot of applications (even OS X and Windows system windows)
having a search imput field on the top right angle. So I copied this
style. We shouldn't loose too much space because we already have the
menu bar.

I still have to understand what to do with it because we could search
by tag of by specific field... Maybe a default on preferences? I don't
know :)

Anyway, when the user start to type there something happen: the four
panels shift (or resize) downwards leaving space for a small
pane/canvas which accomodate the search tools...

- For tag search: a view like I drawn (and lost) yesterday. Hence same
considerations apply.

- For field search: we could have just a list of searchable fields
with checkboxes, so the user can select one of them. This means that
if he checks "Location", terms typed in the search box will search for
Location.

In this way the search pane/canvas shouldn't need too much vertical
space, it's like the small space that most web sites have for
tags/labels under a post/article.

I attached two images showing my layout idea: default full layout and
the search layout just to show the arrangement.
Eventually I can elaborate some views of this pane/canvas but tomorrow
entire day dedicated to bottle refills and next week I will be diving
so I will stop with my foolishness :)

PS
Tomaz!!! Where are you???
-- 
Davide
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