[MeeGo-touch-dev] List widget with items with variable height

[Michael Leibowitz]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 01:03 -0700, Sergiy.Dubovik at nokia.com wrote:
> As you probably know our list widget doesn't support items with
> different height. We are planning to implement such a list in
> following sprints and collecting use cases right now. It won't be
> trivial, we even may fail ( :) ). However I would like to know YOUR
> use case for variable height list. Please reply to me or to mailing
> list. I would like to know what kind of list items you want to add to
> the list, how many you are expecting and so on.

The original UI design for the wireless networks control panel applet
had the list items as expandable.  That is, when one tapped one of the
network names, it would expand and widgets such as a text edit for the
network passphrase would appear.  We had to change out UI design because
MList didn't support variable sized items.  Note that this implies both
the ability to have list items of non-uniform sizes, list items that can
grow and shrink in height, as well as correct event propagation to list
items.

Having this capability back would be nice, although I can't say we would
rework our connection panel UI once it is there.

Cheers