Sections does not scroll

[Sam Bull]

If there are too many parts in PageHeadSections, there is no way to select sections off the screen. This could be solved by allowing the sections to be scrolled horizontally, similarly to how the original Header worked in the early toolkit versions.

Example of where this is a problem:
  I use the PageHeadSections to allow the user to select between languages for translation. The available languages here are set by the user in the settings. So, in most cases only 2-5 languages will be listed, but a user could decide to use all ~150 languages if they wanted to.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

In the new design I believe PageHeadSections will be scrollable. That said the problem you have listed is an app issue. The PageHeadSections is designed to accommodate at most 10-20 sections. 150 sections is a overkill and a bad app design in my opinion. May be it should be shown as a listview instead.

[Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer)]

As said, it's a worst-case scenario. I expect 99% of users to enable 2-5 languages and not be a problem. But, it is possible for someone to enable every language. I see no reason to arbitrarily limit the users choice, they are smart enough to decide what is suitable to them.

I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like, with 4 languages viewable, you should be able to see that it provides a quick convenient switch between languages without taking up much space.

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

I've been prototyping a new SectionStyle which will allow horizontal scrolling and keyboard navigation.

This task is currently on hold on my side as I'm busy on other projects, but I should be able to get back to it and wrap it up (i.e. fix the corner case bugs I found and write tests for it) in the next few weeks.

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

feel free to ping me on IRC if you need additional info or you want to contribute :)

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

I did a prototype back in the days, reassigning this to the engineer who's going to refine it

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

The header uses the Sections component, so that is the one that needs to scroll. I assigned this to myself now, but there other header-related things that need to be finished first.

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

I'm working on it. But it is better not to use the PageHeadSections now. There is new API to replace the old header configuration. Page now has a 'header' property that can be set to a PageHeader, which can contain a Sections component. See https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04.1/Ubuntu.Components.PageHeader/

Right now this will not make it scrolling, but scrollable Sections will land in UITK staging this month.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.1872+16.04.20160308-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1872+16.04.20160308-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

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