https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795
--- Comment #17 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #15) > (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #13) > 1. I do not see upsides of having two controls instead of one: > * it will clutter the UI; Well, arguably the UI is already cluttered with an irrelevant field. But adding a drop-box is a price to pay, yes. > * it will require additional effort to create respective programming logic; I don't think that this is a valid kind of argument... it's like saying you shouldn't go anywhere because that would take time. > * IMO, there are ~no users who would prefer two controls over one, So, here's the crux of the disagreement. We're talking about users who actually use the current control (other users have no preference obviously). Of those users - do they really want the whole cartesian product to select from, rather than selecting language and country? If this were a combo-fix with your typed string being a search filter, then maybe not. Otherwise it quite tedious to do all the scrolling while half the text remains the same. > and > also I don't believe that people spend more time scrolling through the > ~longish list now than they would do with two shorter lists; Ah, but usually they will only need to scroll through one shorter, and easier-to-scroll-through, list! > * new class of user errors will appear, with people forget to set country > where important; 1. I believe that already happens - because the place you need to remember to set the country is not the font dialog :-P 2. If people won't set the right country then, why should they set it now? They can choose a related country with the same language (or the first one). Do you think I bother setting the country for Arabic? > * new kind of complaints will appear from users whose attention gets > attracted to the sudden change, who will start to ask why (why the change, > and why the country matters here, when this didn't even cross their mind > before). That's more positive than negative, because: 1. They will become educated about the importance of locale for some features and 2. It's an opportunity to tell them about the _real_ problem (bugs 151290, 148257, 151215). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
