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Adaptive GNOME Web

I started working on making GNOME Web work well on the Librem 5; to be sure it fits a phone's screen I want the windows to fit in a 360 points width, which is definitely small. To do so I started with the advices from Tobias Bernard to make Web have two modes that I named normal and narrow. The normal mode is Web as you know it, while the narrow mode moves all buttons from the header bar but the hamburger menu to a new action bar at the bottom, letting the windows reach yet unreachable widths.

Web autmatically adapting to small sizes.

And now, with device rotation on a tablet.

The code is overall ready, I still need to break it into reviewable bits before submitting it upstream.

Once this get merged:

  • we want to not show tabs in narrow mode and instead to display a popover listing the available pages,
  • we want to make the search bar shrink rather than to limit the minimum window size,
  • we consider migrating away from the application menu model.

A quick layout test of the pages popover.

P.S.: I forgot to give you a link to the unfinished code for you to play with. 😀

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  1. This looks really good! Much better than I thought it would look when I read it was mobile and adaptive. I like that buttons are divided over the screen instead of being hidden. It feels akin to the more advanced UI's that were often used for the sadly forgotten PDA:s, where programs had a lot more functionality since they didn't need to accomodate giant buttons for giant fingers and small screens - not to mention having all functions visible on the screen at all times instead of hiding them beneath various random swipes, drags, etc.

    Would love it if those buttons had text under them and colorful icons though. Text so it's always obvious what each action does and in which menu to look for things and colorful icons since it's much easier to remember where to look when you have more things like color to go by. I work with helping people with various neurological impairments such as aphasia, and for most of them this would mean the whole difference of being able to use the app or not, even after loads of training. Having small things like that to "connect" your memory with is so very important, and single, grey glyphs is not enough.

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