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

[Manuel Quiñones]

2014-03-05 15:49 GMT-03:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> 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].

Looking great.

What was the rationale behind 4 columns for language and 3 for
country?  The list is longer? Just curious.

> 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?
>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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