ubuntu touch today scope: Image of favourites are badly scaled

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The contact preview implementation is in the child scope com.canonical.scopes.contacts. ( the Today scope is not involved.)

Contacts scope is not yet open on LP, so I am adding Savilerow task (our public project for such missing scopes) and removing Today scope.

I don't see this bug yet. See attached screenshot in portrait mode with buttons visible.

This is how it looks on my phone.

I'm not 100% sure, but I guess I used that image file:
hp@susi:~/Downloads$ file imagesRing.jpeg
imagesRing.jpeg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, aspect ratio, density 1x1, segment length 16, baseline, precision 8, 197x256, frames 3

Hi Hans-Peter,

Thanks for attaching the screenshot, and now I see what you mean.

Many different scopes show a photo and then below it action buttons (or other widgets). If the photo is taller than it is wide, the buttons/widgets can be pushed off screen at the bottom. One could argue it is normal, and the user should swipe/scroll to see more. (Even in your screenshot there is a bit of text visible at the bottom indicating the user can see more by vertical swiping.)

I think this general question of usability and design and it is not specific to the Contacts scope.

Therefore I think we need input from Ubuntu Ux (the design project).

hello Kyle, this mail is not for me (<email address hidden> is "Ren")
please forward it to the right person Hans-Peter...
bye
Ren.

Le 18/02/2016 16:39, Kyle Nitzsche a écrit :
> Hi Hans-Peter,
>
> Thanks for attaching the screenshot, and now I see what you mean.
>
> Many different scopes show a photo and then below it action buttons (or
> other widgets). If the photo is taller than it is wide, the
> buttons/widgets can be pushed off screen at the bottom. One could argue
> it is normal, and the user should swipe/scroll to see more. (Even in
> your screenshot there is a bit of text visible at the bottom indicating
> the user can see more by vertical swiping.)
>
> I think this general question of usability and design and it is not
> specific to the Contacts scope.
>
> Therefore I think we need input from Ubuntu Ux (the design project).
>
>
> ** Also affects: ubuntu-ux
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

Hi Kyle,

I think you are right. In my opinion it would be best if the same screen would be presented as in the contacts app. After all, selecting a contact from the favourites list could mean 'show me the details'. Hitting a specific phone number is as much work as hitting the [Call] button and has the benefit of seeing which number will be dialed (if there are more numbers assigned to a contact).

Hi, i have the same issue, also with picture,especially taken from the contacts menu, to be associated to a favourite contact ( if you use a gallery picture instead of, you can crop it as per your needings, before to associate it.)
IMHO it should be the system iteself to automatically resizes the pictures according to tbe high of the screen to allow, picture and pusbuttons to be viewable in a single glance, without additional scrolling needings from user.
Thanks.
By the,way . If you need to text to contact, you need to search tbe text button below the 'more. Button. It is a useless redundancy. Agree with the above suggestion about to reduce useless additional tapping.
Thanks.
D
I added a zcreenshot. The buttons are below. Need to swipe up to access them.