Climber - improved screen partitioning...

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Reinhard Plietsch

• August 22, 2021 19:35
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Climber tab covers lower half of map-type screens (full-screen map OR map+data fields), thereby hiding both navigation arrow (direction) and the to-come-next piece of the track which is very important to e.g. NOT miss the next turn. Only solution for me so far is to swipe-toggle up/down Climber tab in order to reveal the arrow and track for orientation again... :-(

BLUE area: current screen canvas for Climber in map view
GREEN area: suggested screen canvas for Climber - thereby NOT overlaying arrow and near-range track line so the user can still see what is coming up next

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  Marco Fraatz

  • August 22, 2021 19:26

  +1 (or just move the arrow upwards)

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  Reinhard Plietsch

  • August 22, 2021 19:36

  absolutely! Map clarity might suffer a bit when using the map + data fields view and shrinking the 'distance ahead' by moving the arrow up, though...

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  Pit Neitemeier

  • August 22, 2021 20:13

  Using a dynamic arrow position seems to be a good solution here.
  E.g. when no drawer is shown, arrow can be close to bottom, but when a drawer appears (turn cue, notification, climber) the arrow is moved up just above the drawer. So it can still be seen even with the drawer

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  Malte Brieske

  • August 23, 2021 09:02

  It gets even crazier when you have datafields enabled, when you have two lines of datafields you have around 2 pixels height worth of map.

  From a UX design perspective this is absolutely ridiculous (like many other things in the Karoo UI), the system should be reworked completely. Its a nice idea with the swiping up and stuff, but its just not working out. Having seperate pages for climber for instance would be far better.

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  Paweł Kaźmierczak

  • August 25, 2021 21:01

  Agree, seperate climber page is a must have!

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  John Houlihan

  • September 01, 2021 20:02

  Climber should be a Drawer we can add to each Layout if we wish. Keep it as a drawer but allow the user to define which Layouts it appears on.
  By implementing Drawers for Layouts, you are creating a better user interface in the long run and also making implementing new Karoo developments easier.

   

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  Malte Brieske

  • September 01, 2021 20:07

  Climber should be a Drawer we can add to each Layout if we wish. Keep it as a drawer but allow the user to define which Layouts it appears on.
  By implementing Drawers for Layouts, you are creating a better user interface in the long run and also making implementing new Karoo developments easier.

  No.

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  John Houlihan

  • September 01, 2021 22:01

  "No."

  Yes. At least I explained my reasoning. Climber is already a drawer.

  So you want climber to take up a whole page for just climber, cool. Then just ignore the data fields because you don't want them there anyway. Just say 'No' when you look at the data fields, easy.

   

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  Russell Brownyer

  • April 12, 2022 01:28

  From what I can see in 8months you lowered the blue climber tab down so it doesn't cover it on one side but on the left side it still has a 3/8  inch additional tab with a picture of a hill?  I want to see the direction arrow.  PLEASE remove the left top tab.

   

   

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