Can't see all items in the Control Panel in Kreyol

[kimquirk]

Build 8.2-760 on a Kreyol keyboard

I went to the control panel and the translated words are long enough that all the items don't fit in the window of the control panel. Specifically you can't see 'translation' item to choose a language.

There is no way to scroll horizontally or vertically to get to that item. I will not write up individual bugs for each language that I find this problem... but we can assume there will be more.

Test case: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Keyboard_mappings

[cjb]

Marco, Kim, propose a milestone for this?

[kimquirk]

Changing ownership for simon to help figure out the work effort. Also added 'blocks?' so we can re-evaluate the blockerness based on what countries are depending on 8.2. Probably this will be moved to 8.2.1.

[gregorio]

Hi Guys,

Haiti plans to use 8.2 so we must fix this.

Thanks,

Greg S

[erikos]

I already filed one about that issue #8148

[andresambrois]

This patch adds a gtk.ScrolledWindow to the control panel, it may not be a pretty fix, but it works and its simple.

[erikos]

I don't think we want a scrolled window here - since we have enough space. Adding the xoptions=gtk.SHRINK option when attaching items to the table does solve the issues. But I am not sure yet this is the best fix neither.

[erikos]

haiti in sugar-jhbuild

[gregorio]

Hi Guys,

I wouldn't worry about the aesthetics at this stage. We can revisit this in 8.2.1 if needed.

Which solution has the list risk to damage or cause problems elsewhere?

Which is the easiest to implement and test?

Which ever solution wins on those two counts sounds like the right strategy to get this closed without delaying the release.

Thanks,

Greg S

[marco]

There are two possible short time solutions here:

• Reimplement the icon view using hippo.
• Add a scrollbar to the view, which will be visible for languages that overflow.

The hippo solution would be good enough until post 9.1 (at least).

Replying to gregorio:

Which solution has the list risk to damage or cause problems elsewhere?

Hippo is only slightly more risky I think (the code changes would be larger but easy to test).

Which is the easiest to implement and test?

Scrollbar should be easier to implement (I can't say for sure until we tried it though). Test effort should be equivalent.

[cscott]

Another option is to punt this to the translators: ask the translators to please provide shorter strings, either by using abbreviations or by choosing an alternate wording.

[erikos]

Actually we pushed the scrolled window for now (thanks andres) and do better laying out the icons for 0.82.1 (using hippo).

[gregorio]

Sounds good!

Call it done for now.

Greg S

[erikos]

package: sugar-0.82.8-1.olpc3

|TestCase|

Open the control panel and switch to using the Haiti (kreyol). Open the control panel again. There should be a horizontal scrollbar that let's you scroll to all the items

[mstone]

Approved; thanks for the clear message!

[marco]

Code change:

http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=commit;h=6c2067e79273e9c73d670d95841d153557d1f0d4

[cscott]

Please test build 761 resulting from build-repo commit b7c11be9.

[mchua]

assigning to kimquirk to test as per kim's request to test i18n bugs for this round.

[mchua]

Verified in 766, Kreyol keyboard machine in Kim's office. It's not super-pretty to have to scroll so far for this, but you can see/access all options. Closing.