Hello, What about supporting RTL languages?
Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions/Flow
Neukoln: Thank you for testing it. :) One of the developers was discussing this morning, some of the ongoing work (and difficulties therein) that he was doing towards better RTL support, so hopefully there will be obvious improvements in the next few work-cycles. (They're currently doing 2 week sprints, and one of the focuses in this sprint is a round of i18n fixes).
Would you be willing to give further feedback, once the basics are fixed? I could ping you, at that time. :)
Quiddity (WMF): Hi, sure I would.
Actually the testing was writing down my impressions and describing my experience with Flow.
- Writing Hebrew sentence that has English within it is impossible. The result is unreadable due to directions problems.
- I wasn't able to delete my own comment.
- The lack of Index is prominent. Sometimes you enter a page and wants to get the feel of whats going on quickly. The switch button is nice but you still have to scroll quite a bit instead of having one quick look at the index.
- There are only 3 levels of indentation.
- The spacing between the replays is way too big, makes it hard to follow long and ongoing discussions that has many users involved in them. (constantly need to scroll the screen up and down).
- Same goes for the indentation - lots of unused space causing the sentences to break too many times. Keep in mind that wikipedia's discussions and comments by users tend to be long. brake the lines too many times and you'll increase the total screen length you have to scroll.
- Changing lang interface into Hebrew caused the following:
- "Reply • Edit" moved to the right, vertical lines moved to the right (as expected), while Replay, Preview and Cancel Buttons didn't.
- Worst of all indentations were still on the left, though this time they were about the same as the normal ":" wiki indentation. It would have been great if it wasn't for the vertical huge space between comments.
- User name didn't moved to the right while the 3 dots menu moved to left and is hidden by the user name.
Neukoln: Thanks! I'm not sure what issue tracker is being used for Flow, but I'm sure everything of your comments would eventually go to the issue tracker and get fixed. I agree with 100% of what you said (except Hebrew things, which I didn't test; I don't read the language). Related topics:
about search:
- Search functionality?! 26 Aug 2014
- Search box? 01 Feb 2014
- So how do I search? 17 Jan 2014
about not saving space:
- Huge headers 21 Aug 2014
- Needs some refinement 28 May 2014
- Readability 20 Jun 2014
- please make the interface more compact 20 Jul 2014
about toc:
- Contents table 19 Jun 2014
- Where's the table of contents? 17 Jun 2014
- Needs some refinement 28 May 2014
- Table of content 21 May 2014
limited level of threading depth:
- Threading 02 May 2014
- Threading 12 Jun 2014
- Multiple threading levels 07 Mar 2014
- Thread structure of Flow needs improvement 05 Mar 2014
- bug 59230 - missing thread depth setting
deleting a comment:
- Deleting a comment? 28 Jan 2014
- Deleting own replies? 11 Jan 2014
That's immensely useful. Thanks again, to you both.
(Note: As I replied to Gryllida in another thread, there's a compendium of related major discussions at Flow/Prior discussion-thread-roundup, that I'll slowly add these topics to that, if they're not there already. :)