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

[Walter Bender]

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