Should we use Material Design Style controls when developing VL Web application after V14 SP2?

[Kazunori Kasahara]

I think we should use Material Design Style controls for mobile application. They are suitable for mobile than existing Desktop Style controls.
If application is only for desktop (no need for mobile and resposive design), which option we should use?

1. We should use Material Design controls because they are better than existing Desktop Style controls.
2. We should use existing Desktop Style controls because Material Design controls are basically for mobile.
3. We can use both controls (Material Design and Desktop style controls are mixed).

Any adivise will be appreciated. Thank you for your support.

[Dominik]

Yes, you can, and probably should use Material Design even for desktop only applications. The look you will achieve is similar to (but not exactly the same as) Windows 10 applications. This is a general design direction for all applications now, not just mobile.

Of course you are not restricted to this design style, and if you want to use a more oldschool style "Classic" look for your application you can use regular controls, or even Material Design controls styled to your liking.

[MarkD]

If you look at the Google Material Design guidelines in depth they are include a lot of advice about desktop application design.

For example, look at the Menus spec - https://material.io/design/components/menus.html#


There are 9 mentions of the work "desktop" - so I think Google view the their guidelines as being relevant to desktop applications.

[Kazunori Kasahara]

Thank you very much, Dominik and Mark.

[BrendanB]

After Upgrading to V14 sp2, it appears that all visualizations are now using the #prim_md style.

It takes a bit of fiddling if you want these to show as before. (although, perhaps curiously, any visualizations that were dragged into a panel before applying the service pack stay in the old style).

if you are close to complete with a webpage using the old style of controls, is there a way to quickly tell the IDE not to use the #prim_md style for visualizations? or would this require editing each individual field in the repository?

[jyoung]

I think there is a setting in the options that enable the MD controls by default. I think you need to uncheck that option. Not at my workstation so cannot confirm.

Joe

[JamesDuignan]

Joe is correct,

It is in Settings > General > Design > Drop Fields as Material Design

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