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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

I set the max width for the widget to to be screen width / 2. But I
use few columns if I don't need them. Only a few languages have as
many locale variants as Spanish.

BTW, I think there is a missing translation somewhere. Only Spanish
doesn't seem to get translated. All the other language names do. (This
is when the language is set to Spanish). I don't think this was a bug
I introduced.

Also, note that I do sort the country names alphabetically. It is not
correct in the illustration.

regards.

-walter
>
>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>>
>>>>> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
>>>>
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