On Wo, 2008-06-18 at 18:20 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > Hi everyone :) > > No, I'm not going to discuss the drug problem. This is another user- > feedback item from the OLPC list. > > The OLPC Pootle user was concerned that Pootle kept taking him through > already-translated strings, when he only wanted to see the ones > needing editing. Since we know that most people won't read docs, we > really need a more intuitive interface. > > For example "Quick Translate" doesn't explain what it does. How about > "Translate blank/fuzzy"? Then it would be obvious to the most doc- > allergic user. (To make it briefer, if necessary, "Edit blank/fuzzy"?)
Yes, we definitely need to make this more discoverable. We had some wild ideas in the office about UI reform for the project pages, and I would summarise my current ideas like this (only high-level things): We really want to do three main things, so we'll have three sections (instead of the current stats/editing, checks, goals, assigns, etc.) [Work] (might need a better name) Statistics, goals, work assignment, download for offline translation, etc. [Translation] Translate outstanding work (current quick translate) Proofread (checks, searching, random clicks) [Administration] Rights management, version control functions, file management (delete, add, etc. - mostly not implemented yet) I think this should get us something more intuitive, simpler and easier to use. What do people think about this? > Secondly, the user said: > > > In countries where sending data through the web can be time consuming, > > this UI improvement would be great. Sending data asynchronously with > > AJAX (?) may also help. > > Is this useful? I said I would pass it on. Certainly we need to > provide for people with very slow or hideously unreliable Net > connections (Vietnam is a good example here :( ). I'm quite in favour of this. I've translated online with such interfaces (mostly pathetic on other regards) and it does make for a nice "feel". It is a bit of work, but definitely not undoable. Keep well Friedel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
