Hi, nice proposal. I agree that separating interface language management from content language management will be a welcome improvement :-)
1.1 looks good. I like 2.1.2. The case of 5+ languages in unlikely to happen a lot. 2.2.1 looks good as well. Thanks, Guillaume On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/18/2014 11:34 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > We have http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10745 (Improve the display of > > available languages in Flamingo) which is related to > > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-6402 (Separate Interface language and > > page language settings) > > > > While in Flamingo we could just make the language links look better, > > without changing the functionality, for the future, the separation is > > something we might want to tackle, that's why I've created this proposal > > page > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/InterfaceAndContentLanguageSeparation > > > > I am interested in what you think about the variants. > > > > 2.1 doesn't scale well. > > 2.2 is clean and simple (especially 2.2.3), but it's not as easy to notice. > > Like Jean said, 2.3 makes the menu cluttered, but on the other hand it > is visible enough not to be missed. > > 2.4 is not easy to find, it hides the translations behind a menu. > > > -1 for 2.1 and 2.4. Between 2.2 and 2.3, I think people only need to > discover the translation feature once, while the big menu button will > always take up space. So +1 for 2.2. > > -1 for 2.2.2, that's a menu and not a link. > > Between 2.2.1 and 2.2.3, I find that 2.2.3 is not obvious enough. Are > there any other elements in the skin that implement selections as a > simple text? If not, then for consistency we should use 2.2.1. Users are > used to certain controls, and I'm not sure the most non-technical of our > users will know that they can click on that item even if doesn't look > like a drop down. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
