[Discussion] File Manager improvements
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@sverzegnassi said in [Discussion] File Manager improvements:
We might consider to review those strings for all the core apps in future, but I wouldn't try to implement something different: it might still be confusing for many others.
I would like to give you an example, because it really is confusing.
Start the file manager and do long press on "Videos". Now "Select all" is checked, but only one file is checked. Humm... Then i uncheck it, and it is unchecked "Select None". This state i can get some sort of sense of, but then checking "Select None" makes the whole thing confusing again because no file is selected and the "Select All" is checked. Humm, again. -
@sverzegnassi said in [Discussion] File Manager improvements:
The blue is over-saturated: it might be good for highlighting selection state of small items, it does not seem suitable on bigger items
Good point. But green is very saturated too and you actually walked it around by adding a bit of transparency
Let's to the same with blue (possibly a bit more transparency if it feels too saturated) and it will be cool.Gallery app has not receive many updates from Canonical, so they probably didn't take time to update the design after the orange has been thrown out from the palette.
According to 1.3 color specification: do you have access to documentation or guidelines that has not been yet released? Could you possibly release it somewhere, so that it would serve as a reference for both core and third party apps developer?
I think guidelines like this should land somewhere on the official Ubports website as a documentation for App development. -
@sverzegnassi Oh, I wasn't complaining about the position of the hamburger menu, just that it shouldn't be a hamburger. I'd say it needs another icon.
And yeah, the Go Back is i bit confusing.
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I really like file manager. I use all the options. One thing I would like to have, is a file viewer, to look at a picture without opening the gallery (which is a nice app) for example. Indeed, the gallery opened, you have to find the picture you just want to check.
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Ok, so is the problem only related to the icon shown in the header? If so, we can remove it, and keep just the text.
Yes, I have some files due to my contributions on the Document Viewer. I'm not sure whether I can publish it on internet or not, since it's internal documentation (and in some part it was still WIP).
Actually, we (as UBports) might want to ask - or try to - Canonical if they can give us all the design stuff they have been working on, and add them to docs.ubports.comYes, the question is that we provide the same functionality as a sidebar on tablets and desktops, through an hamburger menu at the leftmost position, therefore the problem. I've been thinking to some solution: we will push an update on OpenStore in order to see if that might work.
That's on our to-do list. It's not planned for v. 0.5 though, but we expect to make it available within two months. Specifically, we have planned an image viewer, a media player (i.e. video + music), and a text editor.
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@sverzegnassi oh that is a very good news! Thanks so much for all your great work!
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@sverzegnassi said in [Discussion] File Manager improvements:
Ok, so is the problem only related to the icon shown in the header? If so, we can remove it, and keep just the text.
I actually think it's not so easy to do it in a user friendly way.
How about replacing the whole thing with "Select All" and "Select None" in the hamburger menu together with "Properties"? -
Has anyone seen the (android) FX file manager?
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@sverzegnassi , one problem i have after trying this development version of the file manager is that both *.mp4 and *.MOV files are played back heavily in pink color after installing it, and the problem does not go away when i uninstalling it either. I posted about it here as well, https://forums.ubports.com/topic/600/cannot-play-the-old-mov-made-by-the-canonical-image/4 , but did not get any suggestions on how to fix it. Do you have any ideas what went wrong and how to fix it?