Difference between revisions of "WMF UX Improvement Effort"

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| #0 || '''[[#Search in text improvement]]''' || We should merge search in text and search in ZIM and have nicer searchbar & search button. || proposal || 10% || [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3098294&group_id=175508&atid=873518]

| #1 || '''[[#Bad MacOSX Quit menu item]]''' || MacOSX Quit menu item in File menu is odd to see || realization || 0% || [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3165259&group_id=175508&atid=873515]

| #2 || '''[[#Dead "adding content" link in the help]]''' || "Adding Content" paragraph does not exist in the Help page in English || realization || 0% || [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3165272&group_id=175508&atid=873515]

| #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% || [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3167823&group_id=175508&atid=873515]

| #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% ||