[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Keyboard CP Section

Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 08:18:11 EDT 2009


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sayamindu has done a great job coding the keyboard CP section.
>
> I am a bit skeptical about the use of comboboxes. I find them hard to use -
> at least the one in gtk. We do not get a search functionality by default,
> and scrolling takes a lot of time etc. Same is true for the language CP
> section, btw.
>
> Another possibility would be to use a treeview, like we do for the journal
> listview, and limit the number of entries by a search field for example. One
> can use the type ahead search functionality here as well.
>
> Or we would enhance the current gtk.combobox to give us the desired
> functionality - but that does sound more like a long term plan.
>
> What do others think? Attached are some screenshots.
>

For some reasons the layout options are not showing in your
screenshots - here is a shot with all the controls being shown:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/cpanel_kbd.png

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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