Hi folks,
Here's another UX bug - David Shea and I have been talking about this
one today in IRC.
Basically the problem is that users can select multiple langauges from
the languages screen in the main hub, but when they do so it's not clear
in the list which languages they've already selected. This is sort of a
positional / wayfinding issue - the users are visting different areas
within the list but then it's unclear where they've already been and where
Our guess is that the average user who needs this screen is bi-lingual.
Although there is probably a use case where a sysadmin is using anaconda
just to generate a ks file from it, in which case he may need to support
end users of many languages. So 2 languages or many languages are kind
of potential use cases here.
Anyway, I did some research and could not find many design patterns
similar to this scenario. One very common one that isn't *exactly* the
same but kind of close is visited links on webpages turning a different
color, e.g. a darker color. One issue with relying on color too heavily
though is that for visually-impaired folks, doing custom colors might
cause issues and especially in an environment like anaconda where the
user isn't at the point they can tweak the environment reasonably to
their own preference, we want to be able to be usable by the folks from
the start, so I think having some kind of indicator besides a color
change would be important.
So here is the mockup - the idea is to highlight the ones you've
selected and also denote them via an icon of some sort - here we used
the 'ok' icon from the GNOME symbolic icon set:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Lang-Multi-Selection-Awareness/lang-multi-select-indicator.png
What do you think?
~m
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