WMF UX Improvement Effort

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Bug	Priority	Difficulty
#0	#Search in text improvement	We should merge search in text and search in ZIM and have nicer searchbar & search button.	proposal	10%	[1]
#1	#Bad MacOSX Quit menu item	MacOSX Quit menu item in File menu is odd to see	realization	0%	[2]
#2	#Dead "adding content" link in the help	"Adding Content" paragraph does not exist in the Help page in English	realization	0%	[3]
#3	#Revamp the help page	The help page must be more complete, more sexy, with screenshots. It should also provide an easy way to download new content.	proposal	0%
#4	#Download manager	For most of the user, this is too complicated to download separately the content. The download must be integrated in Kiwix itself	realization	20%
#5	#Google-styled search result page	Displaying the results in the sidebar is not good. We should display the results like google in a tab.	realisation	10%
#6	#Localization improvement	Kiwix has too few locales and it is too complicated to update them.	realisation	30%
#7	#ESC to quit Fullscreen	This should be possible to press ESC to qui the fullscreen.	closed	100%
#8	#User unfriendly index dialogbox	Change the invitation to index message to "This file does not include a search index. Creating one may take several minutes. Do you want to index your ZIM file now?".	closed	100%
#9	#Search misses some articles	Some articles included in the Wikipedia Version 0.5 ZIM file I tested were not matched by searching and could only be viewed by clicking a link to them.	closed	100%
#10	#Unnecessary doubleclick by suggestions	If a match is chosen from the pop-up search suggestions, it should probably go ahead and execute that search rather than waiting for the user to hit enter.	realization	0%
#11	#Desktop File browser integration	ZIM file mime-type should be recognized as "application/x-zim", icon should be the kiwix one and double click on them should start kiwix and open the file.	realization	30%
#12	#non-functional search icon in toolbar	Seems to be non-functional.	reprocase	0%
#13	#Bad "transliteration" menuitem on OSX		realization	0%	[4]
#14	#Unusual keyboard shortcuts on OSX	In the Mac version, the Keyboard shortcuts are not typical for a Mac application (normally the Command key is used rather than Control). Regardless, they do not actually work using either keys.	realization	0%
#15	#History navigator	You can purge your history, but you can't view it. It would be nice to be able to browse through your history either from a menu or the Sidebar..	discussion	0%
#16	#Back button wrong behaviour	While it was indexing, I decided to try clicking some article links. This worked fine, although I was not able to return to the home page by using the back button. (Strangely this only happened the first time I left the home page. On subsequent attempts I was able to go back to the home page by clicking the back button.)	reprocase	0%
#16	#Preferences dialog box	It might be nice to have a preferences pane where you could set things like "Always show the tab bar", "Remember browsing history", etc.	realization	20%
#16	#Kiosk mode	It would also be cool to have a kiosk mode available in which the interface would be fullscreen unless a special keyboard command was issued.	discussion	0%
#16	#DNS prefetching	although this isn't a user interface issue, it seems that Kiwix makes DNS requests on all the external links included in each Wikipedia article it loads (without clicking on them). So if I pull up World War II, for example, Kiwix might make a couple hundred DNS requests. This isn't bad for someone living in the US, but if you are in a remote area and don't have unlimited data for free, it could be an unexpected surprise, since Kiwix is supposed to be an "offline" reader. Just thought I would pass it along.	closed	100%

Search in text improvement

There is also a small bug: If the search term is not found, it returns an error saying "[JavaScript Application] The text you entered was not found." The "[JavaScript Application]" part should probably be removed or replaced. Ryan

Google-styled search result page

As previously discussed, Google-style search results would be a nice alternative to the current Sidebar implementation, especially if it could include a brief snippet from each article. Perhaps you could configure what type of search you prefer from a preferences menu. Ryan

Localization improvement

We will migration to translatewiki.net. We know how to make the migration, I still need to work on the migraation scripts, new templates and import scripts. Kelson 13:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Desktop File browser integration

Gnome done, OSX, KDE and Windows still to do. Kelson 14:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

See also

• User_interface_feedback