Bug 895977

Summary: Usability: Combobox with many items sometimes unusable
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas>
Component: gtk3Assignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, lsatenstein, mclasen, mkolman, sbueno, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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screenshot showing timezone cities menu
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screenshot showing cities menu without down arrow
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2013-01-16 12:12:43 UTC
Description of problem:
In the time zone selection page when I select Europe, and want to select the  city using mouse, the pop-up dialog with cities is too large to fit into the screen (my laptop has 1280x800 screen), and only the first 15 or so cities can be directly selected using mouse. Even moving the cursor to the bottom of the list does not make it scroll to the next part of the list.

The only way how to select a city which name does not fit to the screen is to use the down-arrow keyboard button.

Additional info:
There are more usability bugs in Anaconda, for example having the "Done" button on this page in the upper left corner, while having the "Begin installation" button of the main screen in the lower right corner.

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2013-01-16 18:46:43 UTC
Created attachment 679747 [details]
screenshot showing timezone cities menu

Do you see the small up and down arrows like those in the screenshot?

Also, the Home, End, Page-Up and Page-Down keys can be used to navigate the menu.

Comment 2 Steve Tyler 2013-01-16 19:02:22 UTC
Created attachment 679750 [details]
screenshot showing cities menu without down arrow

Sometimes the down arrow is not displayed.

Command-line:
$ qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda f18-test-3.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F18/F18-Final/Final/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga qxl -boot menu=on -usbdevice mouse

Comment 3 Vratislav Podzimek 2013-01-17 12:25:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 679750 [details]
> screenshot showing cities menu without down arrow
> 
> Sometimes the down arrow is not displayed.
I've also hit the case when the down arrow was missing. But this has nothing to do with the installer or its GUI. Changing summary and reassigning to Gtk.

Comment 4 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2013-01-17 12:26:00 UTC
Steve,

on my laptop, there definitely were no up and down arrows in the pop-up list.
I have used a -netinst.iso instead of -DVD.iso, FWIW.

qemu-kvm is crashing on me when trying to switch to the graphics mode. With -vga cirrus it works, but I cannot make it use a 1280x800 mode. In the default mode, the arrows are there.

Comment 5 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2013-01-17 13:30:38 UTC
I can reproduce this now even in a VM:

1. In the Date&Time screen, click on the "Region" pop-up, and select "Europe". 2. The "City" pop-up now displays "Amsterdam".
3. Click on the "Amsterdam" label, and now the pop-up with cities does not have the "down" arrow, even though it is larger than the screen.

Subsequent clicks on the "Amsterdam" label display the pop-up with the "down" arrow present. Probably only the first pop-up has this problem, and only when selecting the region first, not when clicking on the map.

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Comment 7 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2014-01-02 15:21:05 UTC
Created attachment 844594 [details]
Fedora 20 screenshot

This is still present in Fedora 20 anaconda, at least when trying to install in a VM. Attaching a screenshot.

Re: comment #1. The arrow keys and PageUp/Down can indeed be used to navigate the menu, but using both down arrow and PageDown keys I can reach the items outside the screen, so I still cannot see which item I am selecting.

Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2015-02-13 18:34:24 UTC
*** Bug 957229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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