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Summary: UI issues in iok
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475063
Summary: UI issues in iok Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: iok AssignedTo: pnemade@redhat.com ReportedBy: mclasen@redhat.com QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: pnemade@redhat.com, fedora-i18n-bugs@redhat.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora
Some issues I noticed while I briefly looked at iok:
- First a general issue: I believe it would be much more useful if iok would appear less like a normal unfocused application window, and more like some special desktop component. Ie, I would remove the window title and menubar, and maybe place the window at some fixed place, e.g. above the bottom panel (compare matchbox-keyboard).
- It seems somewhat pointless to have an "Advanced Options" check menuitem with the sole purpose of hiding and showing another menu. Also, I wonder why you think that "Open" is less advanced than "Save".
- The buttons are pretty hard to hit on a big screen,since they don't reserve any extra size beyond the dimensions of the character. (compare gnome-calculator, which does ensure that its buttons have reasonable size)
- The entries in the combobox should be translatable language names, like "Assamese", not technobabble like "as-inscript". If you use the iso-codes package for this, you get translations of the language names for free.
- The "Open" menuitem doesn't give any guidance as to what kind of file you are expected to open. I'd recommend to make that "Open keymap", add a filter to the filechooser that only shows .mim files, and opening the file chooser in the /usr/share/m17n directory.
- "Save keymap" would be better if it opened a file chooser in save mode, and proposed a filename like 'modified-as-inscript.mim'.