https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=382755
User sh@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=382755#c12
Stefan Hundhammer
For me it did not work because I did not know that I should press space to open the language combo box.
This is pretty standard in all toolkits I know, on Linux as well as on Windows.
Therefore I had very bad responsiveness because loading time of each intermediate language was several seconds on my slow system.
So you didn't know how to do it the normal way, but still it worked, right?
I have two suggestions, any might solve the problem:
a) Show a help text similar to: "Press Space to change the language."
Yes, I can see how this helps a person who doesn't speak the language he is about to change... All a text like that would do is confuse users even more.
This might be restricted to cases where the keyboard is used.
And the way to figure out that a user cannot move the mouse cursor is exactly how?
The first system a user uses without a mouse might be OpenSUSE.
b) If the user presses arrow up or arrow down to change the language but hasn't opened the combo box before, then the installer software should automatically open the combo box before processing the arrow key.
As noted before, this shouldn't even be a comob box. We had a simple dialog with a selection box. Everybody could use that one. But it was decided that looks get priority over usability, so here we go again -- stuck with the same problems (actually, worse problems) than in early 2000. :-(( BTW what you suggest is nothing short of making a combo box a modal pop-up dialog you can't get rid of that easily. Ever thought of the consequences of that? Let's get real and not waste any more time on non-issues. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.