On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 12:08 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > 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 :) I don't like this "embedding a cell-phone in the middle of our UI" too, but since it is what GNOME now does basically all over their new (3.8+) tools I think people will be getting used to this pattern more and more. Alternative is a classical tree view with languages listed and each language expanding to the list of it's locales. But that would be problematic in case of some languages having a lot of locales (e.g. English) that would push the next language aside a lot. And of course, the Gtk's tree view has a tiny arrow or "+" for expanding. -- Vratislav Podzimek Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
