GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 608280
Big download buttons for PO and POT files
Last modified: 2014-08-11 07:12:01 UTC
Right now the "download" icons are to small and not very intuitive. http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/libgsf/master/po/ro I asked non technical translators to use the Damn Lies user interface and they were not able to spot the link for downloading the PO file. The "POT file" and "Translated" text are very vague and they do not suggest the download action. Maybe 2 big buttons, one with "Download template" and "Download current translations" are more intuitive. Maybe advanced users will not appreciate this, but it would be nice to set the mime type to app/binary so that browser will prompt for downloading the file and not open it in the browser window. When I say big button with text, I'm thinking at something like this: http://diferitu.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/download_button.jpg (random google search)
Completely agree, we should make a face lift to the language view...
> Maybe advanced users will not appreciate this, but it would be nice to set the > mime type to app/binary so that browser will prompt for downloading the file > and not open it in the browser window. I disagree in this point. Opening PO files inside the web browser is really helpful to make searches whe translating documentation. Translator can use GTranslator to edit the documentation PO file and the web browser to check how interface elements were translated, to avoid incosistency between UI and doc files
Download template is *really* necessary at DL? Who (in DL) use this files?
(In reply to comment #3) > Download template is *really* necessary at DL? > Who (in DL) use this files? The coordinator might need it to avoid uploading a file for merge and downloading it again afterwards, or to sort out other complex situations. Maybe it would be a good idea to hide it for other users, though.
Created attachment 272594 [details] [review] Patch with proposed readability improvements The patch makes clearer, which parts are downloadable and that POT is a translation template and PO is a translation file.
Thanks for the proposal, but there's already too much text on those pages, and I'd be reluctant to add more. My suggestion would be to make the download icon for the po file bigger, left-aligned, with a button look. Could someone find the SVG source of our current download icon?
Created attachment 272619 [details] Download icon svg
Created attachment 282845 [details] [review] Big download buttons for DL - Reuse of css class "icon_button" from module pages, - Added title in the download links, - Bottom margin to the above class. This also affects module pages (minor change) Sample images http://i.imgur.com/W8AFtzG.png http://i.imgur.com/Nn5myzC.png
Thanks Tom! Committed in https://git.gnome.org/browse/damned-lies/commit/?id=9e04a5be867290779a6e515b4fbe6a62a872f460
Thank you Claude for the commit. It seems that something needs to be updated(?), as margin-bottom doesn't work. FYI I also pushed a minor typo fix for the vertimus page https://git.gnome.org/browse/damned-lies/commit/?id=6c3774a10254b1a4387fa0d3b2841017a238d13d
Sorry, I forgot to redeploy static files, done now. Thanks for the fix.