Subsurface-mobile port to Kirigami 1.0

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Freitag, 1. April 2016 16:27:41 CEST you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:17:03PM +0200, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Freitag, 1. April 2016 16:02:10 CEST you wrote:
> > > > is familiar with a similar component in ios and currently going in/out
> > > > the
> > > > edit mode changes the whole screen "magically" without any transition,
> > > > that is usually not recommended in mobile applications.
> > > 
> > > Not sure I understand what you are saying here, can you try again - it
> > > looks like maybe a part of the sentence got lost editing?
> > 
> > Let me chime in, I think know what he meant (knowing Marco, I know that
> > this is not a lost part of the sentence, but an artifact of
> > Italian-English, just add a "This" at the beginning ;) ).
> > What he meant was that the dialog "sheet" in Kirigami is modeled after a
> > common iOS component. The difference is, though, that this dialog on iOS
> > visibly moves over the content from the bottom when opened, making it
> > clear
> > that it can be dismissed again by pushing it down.
> > On Subsurface, on the other hand, there is no visual transition between
> > the
> > normal view and the edit view. This is what makes it unexpected that it
> > can pe flicked away.
> 
> There is a massive change in the way the page looks, but there isn't a
> sliding transition to bring in the new page. I'd love that, it would look
> nice and would work very well with the idea of flicking it away.

Yes, that is what we'd recommend as well and Kirigami does have a "Sheet" 
component for that (not sure if that's the name in the code as well, though)

> > The recommendation is to use the sheet with the animation, in order to
> > have a clear transition between both modes.
> 
> I'd appreciate pointers as to how to implement that. I'll need to look at
> the other Kirigami Android app that Marco posted about on the Plasma list
> - my guess is that I can borrow from that code :-)

Yes, if you install the Kirigami Gallery app Marco posted about [1], on the 
Buttons page there is a button "Open Sheet", the thing this button does should 
be exactly what you need.

[1] http://notmart.org/misc/kirigami/QtApp-debug.apk