From: Simon G. <ga...@cs...> - 2004-02-28 15:10:24
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> The first language in the "preferred languages" list is what will be used, > if it is found. If not, the second language will be used. Well as a user I would expect that any language that existed in the preferred language list would be there because the system has knowledge of it and that as a user I do not need to worry about potentialy missing languages. Therefore, I see no reason to have a list of these preferred languages, only a single language that is the currently preferred one in use. As a result, I would change the "available" list to "preferred" to indicate that the language being used is the current one and remove the "preferred" list on the right. > Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the UI, to make it more > self-explanatory? Thanks for asking. If there is only ever one language in use at one time then having a popup menu of languages would suffice to select the one to be used. However, if for some reason there is a need to show multiple languages in some order of precedence then I would suggest having only a single list, and allowing items in the list to be ordered. You could either drag the items in the list to the correct ordering (top being most significant) or provide some buttons to move the selected item up or down in the list. As well, since you are dealing with Locale there is also a need to have other items in your Tabs, such as Date, Time, Number and Keyboard. Each of these would be used to modify the Locale prefs for their respective parameters. All in good time, of course. Just some suggestions. > --- > Kind Regards, > Henrik Isaksson > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Simon Gauvin [mailto:ga...@cs...] > > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:28 PM > > To: syl...@li... > > Subject: Re: [Syllable-developer] Locale prefs > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > Here's a little screenshot of the Locale prefs app. Hope the file > > > isn't too big for the list... > > > > Looks nice, but what is the difference between an Available > > language vs a Preferred language? Can you have a language > > that is not available and be preferred? If preferred language > > means the language I want to use does that mean the interface > > will show itself in multiple languages? Is the order of the > > languages in the list significant (i.e. top to bottom where > > top is more important than those beneath it). > > > > I obviously do not know what this dialog box is trying to > > present as functionality... and it does not provide the right > > information to figure it out, as you can tell. Perhaps others > > will have the same difficulty. > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free > > DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Syllable-developer mailing list > > Syl...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/syllable-developer > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Syllable-developer mailing list > Syl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/syllable-developer > |