<div dir="ltr">Looks much better!<div> </div><div>Gonzalo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Manuel Quiñones <<a href="mailto:manuq@laptop.org">manuq@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > 2014-03-05 9:58 GMT-03:00 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>>: >> 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) > </div>I am mimicking the look and feel of the Journal now [1]. Code available at [2]. regards. -walter [1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/5a/Language-country.png" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/5/5a/Language-country.png</a> [2] <a href="https://github.com/walterbender/sugar/blob/language-2/extensions/cpsection/language/view.py" target="_blank">https://github.com/walterbender/sugar/blob/language-2/extensions/cpsection/language/view.py</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > somehow we'll find a way :) > >> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:manuq@laptop.org">manuq@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >>>> >>>> oh, great! >>>> >>>> 2014-03-04 20:50 GMT-03:00 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>>: >>>> > 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 >>>> > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Replace_combo_box_in_language_panel" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Replace_combo_box_in_language_panel</a> >>>> >>>> beware text being cropped: >>>> >>>> <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang1.png" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang1.png</a> >>>> >>>> much better if it looks more like a sugar palette (just rapid mockup >>>> here): >>>> >>>> <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang2.png" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/~manuq/lang2.png</a> >>>> >>>> maybe the palette invoker contains the text label too? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> .. manuq .. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Gonzalo Odiard >>> >>> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > -- > .. manuq .. -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div dir="ltr">Gonzalo Odiard <div>SugarLabs - Learning Software for children </div></div> </div>