Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH installer 1/1] fix #4869: Show state in management interface ComboBox

[Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>]

On 11/10/2023 12:58, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 11/10/2023 um 11:54 schrieb Filip Schauer:
>> The green circle is not displayed correctly by the PVE installer as it
>> does not have the corresponding emoji font package. However, the
>> suggested circles for DOWN are rendered correctly.
> The options I see (on top of that):
>
> - we could just install a font package that ships it, e.g., the
>    fonts-noto-color-emoji one, I mean 10.8 MB isn't negligible, but
>    neither _that_ big..
>
> - Use ◯ for down and ⬤ for up, and color them via CSS, or
>    whatever is the easiest here for GTK combobox entries.


Installing the font package for a single symbol seems a bit excessive.
However, changing the color of individual characters turns out to be
impossible with combo boxes. At least I haven't found a way to do this
with Gtk's limited CSS functionality, nor with override_color or a
custom cell renderer.

That leaves us with the font package.


>
>> Alternatively we could use an arrow pointing either ⬆ (UP) or ⬇ (DOWN).
>>
>> https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2B06
>> https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2B07
>>
>> These arrows are also displayed correctly by the PVE installer.
> I cannot 100% pin it down, but I do not really like arrows for
> conveying that information even though the map to up/down directly,
> but arrows are normally used for rather different things in UI
> context (e.g., sorting, or resize handles), so IMO to overloaded
> already.