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

[Manuel Quiñones]

2014-03-05 9:58 GMT-03:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> 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.

otherwise just remove the palette look (black background, white
foreground) and use a grey border as container (like comments in
journal details)

somehow we'll find a way :)

>
> 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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