Re: Language and locale selection

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:49:59AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 04:52 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > The only "problem" is that we never get to situation where there is no
> > language selected (and thus the "pop up submenu" is not shown). The
> > installation starts with en_US or UEFI/GeoIP suggestion preselected.
> > However this may be okay and with the arrow and better proportionality
> > it looks much better, I think.
> 
> Yep exactly. The only thought I had to get around that oddness was that
> the arrow & locale selection box would appear after some time delay. In
> practice that might be annoying for the user though.
> 
> >> Maybe it would be better to do something like a one-window drilldown
> >> (http://designinginterfaces.com/patterns/one-window-drilldown/). Where
> >> the entire contents of the language selection disappear to show a 'back'
> >> item at the top and the locale list? (I could mock that up tommorrow to
> >> show what I mean, I have to sleep now though :) )
> > Should I vote for something, this would be my choice. It is a common
> > pattern in Gnome, mobile devices etc. so people are used to it. And if
> > we added some "<" ">" arrows at the top, to get back to the list of
> > languages and to the list of locales for the selected language,
> > respectively, I think that would be the best solution.
> 
> I agree, it seems the cleanest solution and GNOME menus are starting to
> use this pattern. I'll mock it up right now and send the updated mockups
> here.

I *really* dislike this. It's like embedding a cell-phone in the middle
of our UI. I know, not very constructive criticism. I'll try to think of
some alternatives :)

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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