GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 690448
Select printer driver dialog is hard to use
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:27:46 UTC
Created attachment 231830 [details] mockup It is difficult to see the information in the dialog, making it hard to use. You can see the dialog here: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=223223 Issues with this: * The window is too small * There is no padding between the two lists * The list headings are in the plural ("Manufacturers" and "Drivers") - they should be singular ("Manufacturer" and "Driver") * The driver list is scrolled horizontally - it shouldn't be. * The driver names include a lot of duplicate text which doesn't help you identify the driver that you need. * The dialog title should be in the window title, not in the window body (see bug 690447). I have attached a mockup for how the dialog should look. Note that the window size isn't much bigger here, but the length of the driver names has been significantly reduced. If the names are longer, the window will need to be wider. :)
Indeed. Agree on all counts. We had talked about fixing the driver items (the stuff in the right pane) to only include enough information to differentiate drivers. Removing the duplicate and noisy text like Gutenberg etc. I think this got lost in the last round of updates.
Created attachment 235694 [details] ppd selection dialog - modified Hi, attached is the ppd selection dialog modified according to your comment. I request 600x400 (instead of 500x350) size for the dialog now. The padding between those two treeviews is 10 pixels. The padding of strings in those list also 10 pixels now. It also fixes a problem with horizontal scrollbar which didn't shrink as expected when the list of PPDs has changed. I haven't modified the names of PPDs yet. I'll look at this later (once we are after UI freeze). Do you agree with the new look of the dialog? Regards Marek
Looks great. :)
Created attachment 235774 [details] [review] visual improvements of driver selection dialog This patch implements most of the changes seen in the screenshot (bigger dialog, plural -> singular, paddings, treeview autosize). It doesn't implement the move of the "title" to title of the window. I left this for #690447.
Review of attachment 235774 [details] [review]: Looks good.
Comment on attachment 235774 [details] [review] visual improvements of driver selection dialog Thank you for the review.
Created attachment 236759 [details] [review] improve look of driver selection dialog I somehow forgot to add the padding between list of manufacturers and list of drivers. The attached patch adds 10 pixels of padding between them.
Review of attachment 236759 [details] [review]: ++
Comment on attachment 236759 [details] [review] improve look of driver selection dialog Thank you for the review.
What's left to do here?
(In reply to comment #10) > What's left to do here? These points: * The driver list is scrolled horizontally - it shouldn't be. - I think that we can not get rid off this completely but maybe I'll be able to shorten some names * The driver names include a lot of duplicate text which doesn't help you identify the driver that you need.
I suggest here a paginated approach, like a wizard. In the first interaction, the user would be exposed to a manufacturer list (list box), and after clicking on it, the dialog stacks up (GtkStack) another list with the drivers.
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