Adapting GNOME Maps to Mobile Devices: Map Details

10 February 2021

Last year, I redesigned the info bubbles in GNOME Maps🔗1. Now I’ve made that bit of the UI adaptive, so that it fits on the screen of your favorite Linux phone!

You can now search for a place, and a little info panel appears at the bottom of the screen. If you click that panel, it displays the full details, just like the popover:

A portrait-size Maps window, with "Yosemite National Park" selected A portrait-size dialog showing details for Yosemite National Park

This is a big step toward making Maps a useful app for your Linux phone, but there’s still a long way to go. For one thing, you can’t tap to select a place–you have to use the search bar. This issue, along with several others, should be more easily addressed after the GTK 4 port.


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