Magnifying glass for choosing time zone

[dotancohen]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubuntu 9.10

Some areas of the world are rather crowded, and trying to choose one's city from the current map is often difficult. For instance, I have a hard time clicking on the single pixel that is Jerusalem, I usually need three or four tries not to click on Gaza or Amman. It would be nice if a magnifying glass would pop up in these crowded areas, making choosing one's city easier.

Thanks!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We used to do this and it actually worked out to be pretty awful in practice - is there a compelling reason to believe it would be better if we went back to this?

[Evan (ev)]

If you keep clicking in the same location it will cycle through nearby timezones.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

> We used to do this and it actually worked out to be pretty awful in practice

I do remember that some distro did this once, but I was not sure that it was Ubuntu. Which Ubuntu version was it, I will download and test, then I will make suggestions on how to improve upon the old behaviour.

Thanks.

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

> If you keep clicking in the same location it will cycle
> through nearby timezones.

That is not obvious. Instead, the user tries to move the mouse a single pixel and click again.

[Tomer Shalev (shalev-tomer)]

The user should be prompted with a listbox of some sort, containing all the nearby places.

Also, not all users are map-aware. They know they are in country XYZ, but they are not educated enough to pinpoint the exact location on the map. The users should have an alternative display of available locations.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]