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App Layout: Filter text size

Open daniellekirkwood opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Your use case

"Favourites" text size is small - is this as desired?

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daniellekirkwood avatar Aug 11 '22 18:08 daniellekirkwood

Yeah, this inconsistency always steals away my attention :(

SimonBrandner avatar Sep 14 '22 12:09 SimonBrandner

Yeah it's a tricky one. We went with the standard material design recommendation for tabs when text size gets too large but I personally am not a big fan of this approach myself.

amshakal avatar Sep 20 '22 17:09 amshakal

Yeah it's a tricky one. We went with the standard material design recommendation for tabs when text size gets too large but I personally am not a big fan of this approach myself.

I can imagine that working but not if the tab layout is the prominent part of the app with the tab names not being user-created :/

SimonBrandner avatar Sep 20 '22 17:09 SimonBrandner

I think you're right about that. It is a prominent part of the app. There are a few ways to resolve this:

  1. We can limit the text size for the tabs so it always fits the width of your phone but can't guarnatee that will work for all translations.
  2. Currently we're trying to see if we can do swipe interactions to to switch between tabs, if we implement that, I can imagine improving the tabs by letting it extend beyond the screen similar to how telegram treats folders.

amshakal avatar Sep 21 '22 11:09 amshakal

@amshakal huge +1 to switching to horizontally scrollable tabs. Letting the content bleed would solve a lot for multiple screen sizes and localisation.

nadonomy avatar Sep 27 '22 07:09 nadonomy

Good news on that front - on iOS it is possible (thanks to @gileluard o/ ) and on androird @fedrunov is investigating if it is possible. We can add this as a quick enhancement once the team has some bandwidth.

amshakal avatar Sep 27 '22 15:09 amshakal

Related: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/7155

SimonBrandner avatar Sep 29 '22 05:09 SimonBrandner