| mpt | kemmko, a three-column window I designed a few years ago: https://bug619866.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=183091 | 10:45 |
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| kemmko | and it has a bottom edge! | 10:55 |
| kemmko | mpt: see above, and thanks | 10:55 |
| kemmko | mpt: I am not that worried about design but more about the behaviour of each panel especially if the app goes from phone/tablet to desktop environment | 10:56 |
| mpt | kemmko, I think we’ve discussed this before … Generally panes are replaced by hierarchy. For example Mail is three-pane on a Mac, two-pane on an iPad, one-pane on an iPhone. | 10:57 |
| mpt | Replaced by hierarchy as the screen gets smaller, I mean. | 10:58 |
| kemmko | mpt: here is the thing, in many cases we don not need as three panel layout | 10:59 |
| kemmko | mpt: at least for our convergent apps, it works just fine with the 2 panel for tablet/desktop | 10:59 |
| mpt | kemmko, well, sure, you don’t *need* it, you could just use hierarchy regardless of screen size. But there’s a reason mail clients usually aren’t one- or even two-pane on a desktop: it’s annoying. | 11:00 |
| mpt | Specifically it slows navigation and scanning of adjacent/new items. | 11:01 |
| kemmko | mpt: actually many are in a two panel mode | 11:05 |
| mpt | kemmko, especially back in the 1990s when the standard display size was 800*600, two-pane was more common or a more prominent option. <http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/threepane/images/Mail2.gif> | 11:07 |
| mpt | (You can still configure Thunderbird to do that now, it just takes more work.) | 11:07 |
| kemmko | mpt: this panels are staked one on top of each other, I am talking about the ones next to each other | 11:08 |
| mpt | kemmko, ok, so when you said two panel mode, you meant three panes in two columns? Yes, that’s still common (I use it), but three-column is increasingly common because average PC screen size+resolution is still increasing. If the screen is large enough for three columns, doing that lets you see more of a message, therefore reduces the probability that you need to scroll to read a message. | 11:20 |
| kemmko | mpt: I never talked about "panes" always about panels and those are columns | 11:23 |
| mpt | kemmko, sorry, I’m not familiar with the difference between a pane and a panel :-) | 11:23 |
| kemmko | mpt: np | 11:24 |
| kemmko | mpt: at the moment I am looking into default behaviour for two panels/columns for desktop… | 11:24 |
| kemmko | mpt: a 3 panel/column one will come be defined at a later point, we didn't have the time to look into that so far | 11:25 |
| mpt | ok | 11:26 |
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