Hi there, I just subscribed so please bear with me if I'm going over things that have been discussed.
Some background for context: Subsurface is a reasonably popular open source dive log program aimed primarily at scuba divers. It's somewhat known in open source circles as it was started by Linus Torvalds, but for the past three years I have been the maintainer. Two years ago we got some public interest again because we switched from Gtk to Qt - we are now Qt5 based. Last spring we started working on a mobile version. Early attempts were done as part of the Google Summer of Code by a student, then thankfully Sebastian decided to help us out and the mobile app took a huge leap forward to the point that it's starting to be usable. When doing that Sebastian used the plasma MobileComponents and implemented what I understand to be the Plasma mobile interface defaults. Right now the Subsurface team has run into a few issues with the components (I think we may no longer be in sync with upstream which is in part why I joined this mailing list). a) the context drawer on some devices ends up being too narrow. We have a patch for that b) the shading of the icons causes them to be rendered as black squares on some Android devices (likely because of buggy GLES drivers). Right now we just commented out the gamma setting - I believe this has been discussed here recently c) the user feedback (about 25 alpha testers on about 30 Android devices, we haven't gotten the iOS build to work, yet, as some of our dependency libraries are causing us trouble) is very negative on the action button. People find it very unintuitive and a solution looking for a problem. In my latest builds I have hacked our copy of the MobileComponents to simply disable the action button and instead added traditional three bar / three dot menus to the top bar - this was very well received with the testers. The context menu button (three vertical dots in the top right corner) only shows up when there is a contextDrawer. Tapping on either of the buttons opens the coresponding drawer. The Subsurface team would love to see an option to cleanly disable the action button in the MobileComponents. I will talk to Sebastian about synching our code base with upstream again and hope that I can help contribute to the upstream project. Thanks /D _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
