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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Looks much better!

Gonzalo


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
> > 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)
> >
>
> I am mimicking the look and feel of the Journal now [1].
> Code available at [2].
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/5a/Language-country.png
> [2]
> https://github.com/walterbender/sugar/blob/language-2/extensions/cpsection/language/view.py
>
> > 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?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> .. manuq ..
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list
> >>>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Gonzalo Odiard
> >>>
> >>> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Bender
> >> Sugar Labs
> >> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Sugar-devel mailing list
> >> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > .. manuq ..
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>



-- 
Gonzalo Odiard

SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/attachments/20140305/a011682b/attachment-0001.html>