On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:27:45PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at 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.
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