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gaois / terminologue

An open-source terminology management tool
http://www.terminologue.org/
MIT License
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UX: faceted filtering is far too well hidden #60

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

It is really hard to find faceted filtering -- the only visual indications that it exists at all are:

  1. There is a gray, non-descript panel to the left with a little hover effect. (Or on the bottom in narrow-screen mode.)
  2. There is a screenshot of it in the help.

Please add an icon for this functionality to the side bar.

michmech commented 3 years ago

True, the UX isn't the best here. An icon or something would be handy.

This would actually be a feature request for Screenful, the UI framework that Terminologue is using. The relationship between Terminologue and Screenful is explained here.

ghost commented 3 years ago

I should have read your doc first -- and I misremembered my changes as being part of pretty-small.js, but they are actually in screenful-navigator. I'd actually started to create a patch for this (as you can see from my commits above) -- 4b6d4b4 basically works but it is buggy: it looks a bit foreign in the toolbar, it's not always presenting state correctly, it's shown even in sidebars that actually have no facet filter, and I don't think it can be localized. If I get to fix all these things, I'd create a PR, if that is ok?!

(My fork has a few more things, mostly CSS changes [we have too many main languages] and German l10n that I'd like to submit at some point.)