On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:51 PM, David Young <dyo...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 06:09:01PM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote: >> I didn't want to change the dropdown in the main search page to a >> checkbox based one, therefore put this on a page of its own. I will >> try to provide a hyperlink to it from the main page. > > It's exciting to watch these improvements to man-k.org.
Thank you, David :-) > > In case you were not aware, the web pages don't seem to be indexed by > author (try searching for Abhinav). Yes, as of now we don't index the AUTHORS or the HISTORY section for apropos(1). I will enable it for man-k.org > > Here a couple of UI nits that you may or may not want to pick: > > On my 15-inch laptop, the man-k.org homepage has several square inches > of blank space, plenty of room for all of the choices under the > dropdown. If you replace the dropdown with checkboxes, then it will > take about half as long to make a selection, and the user can apprehend > more of the possibilities without exploring the page with the mouse. Yes, I guess that makes sense. I didn't realize the dropdown would turn out to be so ugly :) I will experiment with replacing it with checkboxes. > Usually it is best if controls or gestures are one-to-one with choices: > consider using a pair of radio buttons instead of checkboxes to > select/deselect each OS, if space allows. Not quite sure if radio buttons would seem very intuitive here (and probably would need more space) :) - Abhinav
