UI design: In horizontal (landscape) mode the top and bottom bar takes 20% of the screen height
What problem did you encounter
There is not enough room for activities in the current landscape layout
What is the current behaviour?
Together the top and bottom bar takes 20% of the available screen height.
My screen has a height of 720 pixels, the bottom bar takes 80px, the top takes 65px.
What is the expected behaviour?
More room for activities
How to reproduce
Activate landscape mode.
Discussion
Moving the bottom bar to the left or right as seen on android would allow to free 11% of screen spaces.
The information displayed on the bottom bar do not necessitate to be readable, in the opposite of the top bar.
Possible future issue
It's possible the animation bringing up the bottom drawer would seem less natural. Hard to say without testing first.
Which version did you encounter the bug in?
I used the precompiled Debian package.
Package: phosh
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1163
Maintainer: DebianOnMobile Maintainers <debian-on-mobile-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Architecture: arm64
Version: 0.4.4-1mobian1
Provides: notification-daemon, polkit-1-auth-agent
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfeedback-0.0-0 (>= 0.0.0+git20200305), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgcr-ui-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.23.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.53.2), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libhandy-1-0 (>= 1.0.0), libnm0 (>= 1.0.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.2), libpolkit-agent-1-0 (>= 0.99), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.94), libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (>= 0.99.1), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.4-3~), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.9.91), fonts-lato, gsettings-desktop-schemas, phoc (>= 0.4.0)
What hardware are you running phosh on?
- Pinephone (mobian)