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Bug 744591 - Don't show missing characters
Don't show missing characters
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-characters
Classification: Other
Component: general
3.15.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-16 14:18 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2015-12-15 07:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
screenshot (371.94 KB, image/png)
2015-02-16 14:18 UTC, Allan Day
  Details
character: Don't show missing character (5.23 KB, patch)
2015-12-15 07:09 UTC, Daiki Ueno
committed Details | Review

Description Allan Day 2015-02-16 14:18:28 UTC
Created attachment 296933 [details]
screenshot

Because what is shown in the screenshot is not useful, and most people won't know what it means.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-02-16 18:05:45 UTC
What to show instead if someone wants to insert character X but a font is not available covering that character?
Comment 2 Allan Day 2015-02-18 19:49:17 UTC
(In reply to André Klapper from comment #1)
> What to show instead if someone wants to insert character X but a font is
> not available covering that character?

If someone searches for a character that isn't supported, we could certainly inform them about the situation (I can provide mockups for that). I'm not sure how we could handle this in the browsing case though, or if that would even be desirable - the goal of the app is to provide a simple interface for discovering interesting characters, rather than finding any arbitrary character.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2015-09-23 14:25:09 UTC
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #2)
...
> If someone searches for a character that isn't supported, we could certainly
> inform them about the situation (I can provide mockups for that).

You'd just show a message in the content area - "<character> is not included in <font>".
Comment 4 Daiki Ueno 2015-12-15 07:09:31 UTC
Created attachment 317404 [details] [review]
character: Don't show missing character

Instead, show a message in the content area - "<character> is not
included in <font>".
Comment 5 Daiki Ueno 2015-12-15 07:12:37 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion.

Attachment 317404 [details] pushed as 7d4723a - character: Don't show missing character