[PATCH] Re: Kirigami design question

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Donnerstag, 31. März 2016 23:20:41 CEST Robert C. Helling wrote:
> After spending some more thoughts about this, and looking at some native
> apps like mail 
> 
> I realize that the "back to the list" action is of course almost always
> located as an arrow in the top left position. I understand that there is a
> strong sentiment here also against having important buttons on the top of
> the screen but this is where native apps have them. And the commit type
> actions in the top right. 

Yes, they do, your observation is fully correct.
Then again, Apple hasn't changed their basic UI layout since back in the day 
when smartphones were small enough to allow people to reach every point on the 
screen with one thumb.

If the goal is to go for maximum consistency with native apps, Kirigami 
certainly isn't the best framework to use.

In that case, though, no cross-platform framework will work perfectly because 
none of them recreate the native widgets 1:1, and "build once, deploy 
everywhere" goes down the drain because you have to adapt your UI to each 
platforms UI guidelines.

Please don't take this as an attack on your observation. It's just the 
rationale why we (the Kirigami designers and developers) haven't gone with 
"Follow each platform's HIG as closely as possible".

Good night,
Thomas