Hi,
I've been working on the mockup of a contentlister replacement.
The screenshot attached was made using glade and gimp.
Now I'll describe the components:
* Toolbar with some groups of buttons
Code:
- Navigation
. Recent
. Favourites
. File system
. Tags
. Search
- Edit
. Cut
. Copy
. Paste
. Delete
. Rename
- UI
. Toggle list/icon view
. Increase font size
. Decrease font size
- Applications
. Apps
- System
. Network status
. Battery status
. System SubMenu
o Time/date
o Iliad settings
o ... [1]
[1] consult jharker's comment #14 about System Dialog in thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30955
* Buttonbar
Like GNOME's one.
In search or tags modes, it will be replaced with an entrybox.
* Books view
2 views:
- notebook view
By default notebook with no scrollbar, with listview inside.
As many pages as needed.
Font size could be changed. 3 different sizes: small, medium, big.
For each entry there is a "selection" checkbutton, an icon representing document type, and 2 lines (big filename in upper line, comments/tags and size in bottom line)
- icon view
Regressions from current contentlister
- no "sort" button => system preferences?
- no "block", "pin" buttons => does anyone use them?
- no "show keyboard" button => only showed when needed
Additional comments
- toolbar icons should be bigger
- default font should be bigger
- instead filename, show title and author. But then we would hace to extract them, and not all docs provide them in an easy way to retrieve
- we should dettach keyboard handling from this contentlister
If you like the design I could start a proof-of-concept written in python.
What do you think? Any ideas, comments, suggestions?
Kind regards,
Iņigo