[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] replace combo box on language panel

[Walter Bender]

Maybe I should not use ellipsis at all for this.

Re Manuq's suggestion to use an invoker, I struggled with that: It
popped the palette up into a separate window that was not selectable
:P But I agree, some way to better tie the button and palette together
visually would be good. I'll play around with some ideas.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> There are more space in the panel, is possible enlarge the paletted to
> reduce
> the number of elipsed Languages/Countries.
>
> Also, I found elipsing in the middle less useful than in the end,
> there are any reason to use it?
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> oh, great!
>>
>> 2014-03-04 20:50 GMT-03:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
>> > Made a second pass at this (recall last week I submitted a patch to
>> > break the crazy long combo box into two separate combo boxes: one for
>> > language and one for country). Now I have replaced the combo boxes
>> > with palettes, which are arguably more efficient and easier to use on
>> > touch.
>> >
>> > See
>> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Replace_combo_box_in_language_panel
>>
>> beware text being cropped:
>>
>> http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang1.png
>>
>> much better if it looks more like a sugar palette (just rapid mockup
>> here):
>>
>> http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang2.png
>>
>> maybe the palette invoker contains the text label too?
>>
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> Gonzalo Odiard
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