[maemo-developers] Submenues in Fremantle

[From: Tim]

Till,

Have you tried to create new Sub Views for each of the submenu items?

http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Proof-read_Human_Interface_Guidelines/View_Menu

Tim


maemo-developers-request at maemo.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:58:14 +0200
> From: "Till Harbaum / Lists"<lists at harbaum.org>
> Subject: Submenues in Fremantle
> To:maemo-developers at maemo.org
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> Hi,
>
> i am just changing my apps to use the HildonAppMenu under
> Fremantle. These apps (gpxview and osm2go) use submenus,
> so i either reduce the number of menues entries or find a replacement
> for submenues.
>
> While i was pretty successful doing the first i still need a submenu
> here and there. I found this example:
>    http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/tutorial/html/ch10.html
> using seperate windows for this.
>
> I have two problems with this (the current version of gpxview in
> extras-devel is doing it this way):
>
> 1) Consistency: Why is nokia telling us that clicking outside a dialog
> is a natural way of closing it if at the same time they introduce an
> explicit close button for submenues this way (you need to click
> the back arrow in the upper right corner to close such a "submenu")?
>
> 2) They look ugly
>
> I tried to use a seperate hildonappmenu via hildon_app_menu_popup,
> but wasn't successful (just nothing pops up).
>
> So my question: Is there a nice and consistent solution for submenues
> in fremantle?
>
> Till
>
>
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