No documentation for how to hide MainView's header

[Stuart Langridge]

All Ubuntu applications should have a MainView, even if you want the app to be fullscreen and not contain the "Ubuntu header" (for example a game). The way to do this, currently, is to have a Header and a Page, and set the Page's title to the empty string, "". This will hide the header. This is, however, undocumented, and even if documented is a bit crufty (what happens if you have more than one page and one of them has a blank title? Does the header appear only on some pages? That would mean that you can switch between pages until you get to a headerless one and then you're stuck there.) Perhaps there should be a hideHeader boolean property on MainView or similar: it would do the same thing as setting the current Page's title to "", but would be a property of the header rather than the page: it would also make it easier to discover this feature from reading the documentation, because there would be an explicit property to do what's required rather than a magic value of an existing property.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging at revision None, scheduled for release in ubuntu-ui-toolkit, milestone Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.1688+15.10.20151018.1-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1688+15.10.20151018.1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Tim Peeters ]
  * Add delegate property to ActionBar.
  * Introduce PageHeader component.
  * Add header property to Page.
    Fixes LP: #1248898, LP: #1350893, LP: #1445016, LP: #1492328
  * Use the correct navigation overflow icon in PageHeader.

  [ Loïc Molinari ]
  * Fixed OpenGL ES 2 mipmap fallback. OpenGL ES 2 doesn't support
    GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL by default, it is only available via an extension. It
    was working on the devices where this extension is available but not on
    the emulator. Fixes LP: #1505221.

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Handle incubateObject returning null in PageWrapperUtils.
    Fixes LP: #1505197
  * Add module header to PageWrapperUtils.

  [ Zoltan Balogh ]
  * Improve test plan
    - Ad -q parameter to provision the device for normal use with a PPA
    - Fix up the camera and clock app on the device to acces services
    - Replace phablet tools with manual enabling writable image
    - Fix PPA pin up for staging and other regular PPAs.

  [ Zsombor Egri ]
  * Emit Dropped event for live ListItem drag'n'drop. Fixes LP: #1500118.

  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * Build dep on libinput-dev and libxkbcommon-dev (LP: #1437192).

  [ Benjamon Zeller ]
  * Remove unused variables.

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * No-change rebuild.

 -- Zoltan Balogh <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:47:27 +0000