GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757986
Responsive tile scaling
Last modified: 2015-11-12 13:49:34 UTC
With a large window, Software can look rather empty. Not only does this not look particularly great, but it results in it not really looking like a "store" (stores tend to have a lot of things to show you). It would be great if we could show more tiles when it is possible to, particularly on the home page: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/software/version2/wire-responsive-scaling.png
I pushed a one liner that increases the maximum width of the tiles to 8, which pretty much takes care of this all: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=59f63d71feef3f6a71186cc41d72f41c10e848d7 One fallout from this is that we don't actually have enough apps to fill up all 8 tiles in some cases, such as for "Recommended Audio Applications". The failure mode for this is that it just hides the "Recommended Audio Applications" section if it doesn't have enough apps. I guess we'll just have to add more apps there :) Any suggestions what else could go to https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/data/modulesets/featured.xml in the Audio category?
(In reply to Kalev Lember from comment #1) > I pushed a one liner that increases the maximum width of the tiles to 8, > which pretty much takes care of this all: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/ > ?id=59f63d71feef3f6a71186cc41d72f41c10e848d7 Thanks! > One fallout from this is that we don't actually have enough apps to fill up > all 8 tiles in some cases, such as for "Recommended Audio Applications". The > failure mode for this is that it just hides the "Recommended Audio > Applications" section if it doesn't have enough apps. > > I guess we'll just have to add more apps there :) > > Any suggestions what else could go to > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/data/modulesets/featured. > xml in the Audio category? EasyTag? Amarok?
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #2) > EasyTag? Amarok? Thanks, added those and gnome-music as well. This is how it looks now: https://kalev.fedorapeople.org/gnome-software-overview-default-size.png https://kalev.fedorapeople.org/gnome-software-overview-maximized.png https://kalev.fedorapeople.org/gnome-software-overview-minimal-size.png I guess the minimal size doesn't look too good with 5 tiles, and it would be better with 6 tiles that have smaller width?
(In reply to Kalev Lember from comment #3) ... > I guess the minimal size doesn't look too good with 5 tiles, and it would be > better with 6 tiles that have smaller width? It would probably look better with 6 rather than 5, but 5 doesn't seem terrible.
OK, great, I think we are done here then. Thanks Allan!