[Messaging app] No way to know if any item is selected in the ListView or thread view

[Omer Akram]

3 Oct comment:
In the messaging overview, the tick will also appear to the right. The content will be shifted to the left, and there should be a 1 GU gap between the time stamp and the dark area (selection tick). As for the messaging text preview, it will be cropped and covered by the selection.

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Design comment: Multi selection should include a 'tick' to the right of the list item. This pattern can be applied across all telephonya apps where selection is required.

visual design: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/file/d/0B-a_7E3tDxOgbHJUR3hHMnYwaVU/edit?usp=drive_web
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In the messaging app if you have some already existing conversations and you pull out the toolbar and tap select item and then click on any of the message conversation there is no way to if that item is selected or not, if you hit the delete button it will actually be deleted.

1. open the messaging app and make sure you have atleast one message thread visible
2. pull out the toolbar and tap 'select'
3. tap on a message thread

What happens:
The message thread gets selected but there is no visual difference for us to know if it really is selected. The user only knows that when the delete button is tapped.

What should happen:
When a thread is selected there should atleast be a 'tick' icon there to show that the item is really selected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: messaging-app 0.1+13.10.20130917-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: armhf
Date: Wed Sep 18 20:26:35 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) - armhf (20130917.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: messaging-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:messaging-app at revision 36, scheduled for release in messaging-app, milestone Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package messaging-app - 0.1+13.10.20130925-0ubuntu1

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messaging-app (0.1+13.10.20130925-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Adding single instance marker to the desktop file.

  [ Gustavo Pichorim Boiko ]
  * Mark events as read when they are opened in the messages view.

  [ Tiago Salem Herrmann ]
  * Add a visual feedback for selected messages/conversations. (LP:
    #1227351)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 36
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:35:22 +0000

[Christina Li (christina-li)]

hi Tiago, the selected state implementation is not customised to the design. Can we please fix this?
I've included a link to the visual, which includes a 'tick' to the right of the list item. This pattern can be applied across all telephonya apps where selection is required.

visual design: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/file/d/0B-a_7E3tDxOgbHJUR3hHMnYwaVU/edit?usp=drive_web

[Christina Li (christina-li)]

updated description to indicate how it appears in message overview