improve user-focused punctuation in fct_vsp.xsl

TallTed commented 3 years ago

Aligns line 346 with line 339, making both statements end with dot.
Makes lines 341 and 348 end with question mark, implying need for user action.

TallTed commented 3 years ago

@openlink --

                      The query timed out with partial result.
                      Retry with
                      <xsl:value-of select="($timeout div 1000)"/> seconds timeout

This dialog/alert does two things -- informs that the query timed out with (partial or no) result, and asks whether to retry with n seconds timeout. The latter requires an answer from the user, by either clicking or ignoring the "retry" button, and is appropriately punctuated with a ?.

TallTed commented 3 years ago

@kidehen /cc @danielhmills

I see... I thought those sentences would appear in the main UI, but I now see they're in a mouseover display tied to the "Retry" button. Looking at this page...

I think the "timeout" and "partial/no results!" info should be much more obvious, perhaps atop the table, maybe as a watermark across the table, and definitely not requiring a mouseover of "Retry" to be revealed.
I think the "Retry" button should be styled as a button. Right now, it looks like advisory text.
The invisible scroll-bar on the right is not obviously present. (I'm used to such things, and it still took me more than a few ticks to comprehend it.) The slider looks like a decoration, not an interactive element.
The Go to: ___ Show 50 51 - 100 of 1494 total < > is challenging. I think something like
```
Show ___ rows, from ___ to ### of ### total  <  >
```
where both ___ and ### are filled in by FCT when delivering a page (including the default row-count and 0 for the others when results are empty), ___ are user editable, and ### are not editable.
I have a giant screen. It's generally worthwhile to limit the width of textual content, because of the way eyes work, but there's no reason not to use the full height of my screen.
Given that the active real estate is part of my open window, the odd clickable box at far-upper-right of my window should actually be at far-right of the active real estate; similarly, the mysterious box it opens should be at far-left of active real estate, not at far-left of my window.
I suggest changing the About... box title from About This Virtuoso Faceted Browser Instance to About this Virtuoso Faceted Browser instance.

TallTed commented 2 years ago

@kidehen @danielhmills @openlink

Conflicts resolved. Please review and merge.

OpenLinkSoftware / fct

improve user-focused punctuation in fct_vsp.xsl #6