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[[Category:Feature|Replace combo box in language panel]]
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== Summary ==
The combo box on the language panel is unwieldy. This feature would replace the combo box with a pair of palettes: one for language and one for country.
[[FIle:Language-language.png|800px]]
[[File:Language-country.png|800px]]
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
* Email: <walter at sugarlabs dot org>
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 1.02
* Last updated: 2014-03-04
* Percentage of completion: 95% (patch written, awaiting further design review)
== Detailed Description ==
We ship lots of languages and country combos. The combo box on the language panel is unwieldy (and broken on touch -- it will not pop up properly on first touch). This feature would replace the combo box with two palettes (as shown in the figures).
From the palettes, you see more choices w/o needed to scroll. Plus the palettes are much easier to use with touch.
== Benefit to Sugar ==
This feature will help us scale to more languages and give better touch support.
== Scope ==
The intervention is limited to:
* sugar/extensions/cpsection/language/view.py
== How To Test ==
{{:{{PAGENAME}}/Testing}}
== User Experience ==
The user will see two buttons and labels displayed instead of a combo box. In the examples illustrated, it means that rather searching through a ''long'' list in a combo box >10x the screen height, the user scans 2.5 screens of items.
== Dependencies ==
No new dependencies
== Contingency Plan ==
There is no adverse impact if this feature does not land.
== Documentation ==
== Release Notes ==
== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]
[[Category:Feature|Replace combo box in language panel]]
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== Summary ==
The combo box on the language panel is unwieldy. This feature would replace the combo box with a pair of palettes: one for language and one for country.
[[FIle:Language-language.png|800px]]
[[File:Language-country.png|800px]]
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
* Email: <walter at sugarlabs dot org>
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: 1.02
* Last updated: 2014-03-04
* Percentage of completion: 95% (patch written, awaiting further design review)
== Detailed Description ==
We ship lots of languages and country combos. The combo box on the language panel is unwieldy (and broken on touch -- it will not pop up properly on first touch). This feature would replace the combo box with two palettes (as shown in the figures).
From the palettes, you see more choices w/o needed to scroll. Plus the palettes are much easier to use with touch.
== Benefit to Sugar ==
This feature will help us scale to more languages and give better touch support.
== Scope ==
The intervention is limited to:
* sugar/extensions/cpsection/language/view.py
== How To Test ==
{{:{{PAGENAME}}/Testing}}
== User Experience ==
The user will see two buttons and labels displayed instead of a combo box. In the examples illustrated, it means that rather searching through a ''long'' list in a combo box >10x the screen height, the user scans 2.5 screens of items.
== Dependencies ==
No new dependencies
== Contingency Plan ==
There is no adverse impact if this feature does not land.
== Documentation ==
== Release Notes ==
== Comments and Discussion ==
* See [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|discussion tab for this feature]]