I kinda like the idea of a language switcher button in the search ui, along with a shortlist of most-frequently-accessed languages. I think we could make it fairly nonobtrusive for people who don't use it while making it super easy to activate for those for whom its a major feature.
-- brion On Nov 18, 2014 9:40 AM, "Monte Hurd" <[email protected]> wrote: > How about having the search box placeholder text specify the lang and when > the search box is empty, since there's no need for a clear button, have > instead a small lang switcher button? > > > On Nov 18, 2014, at 4:03 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am raising this issue every once in a while... > > Is there any plan to make the app less monolingual? See > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34100 > > Currently, the app shows content only in one language. It's possible to > switch to another language according to the interlanguage link, but the > searching will always be in one language until changed in the preference. > > Back when the feedback mailing list was active this was one of the most > requrested features, and I personally strongly support it. > > At the very least, searching must work in the language of the currently > displayed article, because seeing content in one language and searching in > another is badly confusing. > > Better yet, there should be a way to define several "favorite languages" > in which the user is interested, and to show search results from all of > them. > > Any chance of that happening soon? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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