GNOME Documents collections dialog redone

Few days ago the new collections dialog for GNOME Documents landed in master. Since the last post the dialog received some improvements:

An empty view

gnome-documentsempty-view

When there are no collections, instead of displaying an empty list we show a special view to add your first collection.

A more polished dialog

gnome-documents-full-view

The border of the list was removed giving more view to the list’s content. Suggested buttons are indicated, so that the theme can colour them differently to give a hint to the user. Spaces between elements have been changed according to the GNOME HIG and now they are in increments of 6 pixels.

Animations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-C8ohMZTsE

When deleting a collection, the row now slides on the left to make room for the delete message with the undo button. If the undo button is clicked the collection row slides back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlR1weMETHo

When the undo button is showed a timer starts. If it is not clicked in time the collection is deleted and the row disappears.

My work on GNOME Documents as a Google Summer of Code student is over, but I have strong interest in continuing to contribute in this awesome community. I would like to thank again my mentor, Debarshi, for his guidance and help when things didn’t work; the GNOME design team for gave me a good mockup to work on; Lapo for the graphical tips he suggested me after the previous blog post and Emmanuele for his advice on GTK.