| 2008-06-03 19:03:00 |
Diogo Matsubara |
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In https://launchpad.net/~era/+editlanguages the list of available languages is needlessly contained in a scrolling box which is only filling a fraction of the available space. Moreover, the box is much too small; scrolling the list with the scroll bar is very hard, because a tiny movement of the scrollbar already scrolls more than a screenful (at least if you're not extremely precise with the mouse); thus moving to the language you want is a major usability problem. Few users speak more than half a dozen languages, but the list is likely to eventually grow into several hundreds of items more (the current list seems to have 374 entries; by one conservative estimate, there are some 8,000 languages in the world, although certainly not all of them have a writing system, much less a need to be listed in Ubuntu's database).
What's the design rationale for a nested scrollable box anyway? Could the list not simply be displayed as the main content of that page?
See http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12148892/editlanguages.png for a screenshot (attached to unrelated bug 194143) |
In https://launchpad.net/~era/+editlanguages the list of available languages is needlessly contained in a scrolling box which is only filling a fraction of the available space. Moreover, the box is much too small; scrolling the list with the scroll bar is very hard, because a tiny movement of the scrollbar already scrolls more than a screenful (at least if you're not extremely precise with the mouse); thus moving to the language you want is a major usability problem. Few users speak more than half a dozen languages, but the list is likely to eventually grow into several hundreds of items more (the current list seems to have 374 entries; by one conservative estimate, there are some 8,000 languages in the world, although certainly not all of them have a writing system, much less a need to be listed in Ubuntu's database).
What's the design rationale for a nested scrollable box anyway? Could the list not simply be displayed as the main content of that page?
See http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12148892/editlanguages.png for a screenshot (attached to unrelated bug 194143)
It may save time to fix bug 235857 at the same as this bug. |
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