Two entry boxes would remove need for swap button

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Sugar units conversion activity

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Two entry boxes would remove need for swap button #25

Closed quozl closed 5 years ago

quozl commented 5 years ago

At the moment the activity has;

source unit (a menu),
destination unit (a menu),
source value (centered entry),
source value and destination value (centered label),

unit	swap	unit
	value
	value - value

An alternate design could be;

source value (an entry on the left of display),
source unit (a menu to the right or below the source value),
destination value (an entry on the right of display).
destination unit,

value	unit		value	unit

This would;

make it clear what the unit is for each value,
allow changes to the destination value,
remove the need for a swap button.

Discuss?

leonardcj commented 5 years ago

Sounds like a better design layout to me. Would not appear to have any real impact on current i18n/L10n one way or the other, but raises the question of improvement. It does make a certain left-to-right (LTR) assumption that may not be true in all languages. I'm not personally familiar enough with right-to-left (RTL) languages to know how they display units. I'm not sure if there are RTL languages that might have different conventions for value/unit or unit/value ordering. I wonder if there is another Linux unit conversion tool known to have good i18n you might peek at to look at their i18n tweaks?

chimosky commented 5 years ago

I think the source unit coming before the source value would be great and I agree with you, it's a better layout design and removes the need for the swap button

salunkheketki19 commented 5 years ago

Hello Sir, I want to work on this issue can you please explain me the exact issue in detail?

Aniket21mathur commented 5 years ago

Agreed. A better design layout, less confusing and easy to use!