On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:27:45PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Oleg Broytman <p...@phd.pp.ru> wrote: > .. > >> Really? What smartphone are you using? :-) > > > > Are you developing an interface for smartphones? Wouldn't it hurt > > usability for desktops/notebooks? > > You missed the smiley in my response.
I am a well-known wet blanket. (-: > But seriously, I do find the > interfaces that work well on smartphones to improve usability for > desktops/notebooks. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Big screen(s) and a wheeled multi-button mouse allow quite a different interface compared to small screen and single-finger taps. > Back on the topic, I don't think a drop-down list of all modules is > workable even in browsers that display them as combo boxes. How many > modules do we have in std lib? About 100? Maybe more. What if the > bug affects several modules? What if the patch modifies several > modules? Do we want to allow selection of multiple modules for the > given issue? The components window is already hard to use if you want > to select say both Extension Modules and Windows. This is with just > about 20 entries. Imagine over 100 entries there. In this particular case I'd rather tend to agree - an editable single-line box to enter space-*and*-comma-separated modules list would be the best interface. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phd.pp.ru/ p...@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com