[sword-devel] New repository - Implications for frontends

[Peter Von Kaehne]

Ther are a bunch of ways of implementing this, and most will depend on the actual frontend and it susual way of interacting. 

Personally, on a desktop I would think having a full list and a shortened, user selected list, might be a good way forward. David's suggestion makes certainly a lot of sense on a phone, maybe also on a desktop as a way of speeding up a more permanent filter. 

I think for most people most languages we offer will be irrelevant - most will want to see Bibles in their language, possibly a state/national language, maybe Biblical languages, maybe other, neighbouring languages. If I was not involved in CrossWire, my list would be not bigger than 10- 15 languages - and that is probably a lot already. 

Alternatives could involve having regional filters, national or even continental filters, but that is clumsy and likely will be faulty with people moving a lot around and many languages having many places they are spoken in. 

But anything which keeps a list of 700+ languages easier to handle than a long scroll down, is probably a good thing.

Peter
 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. August 2015 um 13:48 Uhr
> Von: "David Haslam" <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
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> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] New repository - Implications for frontends
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> cf. Think how you search/filter your contacts list on your phone.
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> Sometimes, even entering a single letter in the search field gets you to
> very near where you want to be.
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> David
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