Bug Description

Additional annoying usability bugs were discovered in ubiquity and were unable to be fixed in time for 8.04. These proposed changes should improve the experience of selecting a timezone location on the map for all users with minor risk of regression.

TEST CASE:

Run ubiquity and navigate to the time zone page. Check to see if the following problems occur:

- the zoom starts too quickly, it's not easy to move the mouse pointer over a country in less than one second which means it zoom on the wrong area while you are still moving.

- the zoom out effect needs a delay too, it's too easy to get the mouse pointer out of the widget while scrolling.

- the zoom is not correctly centered, putting the mouse pointer over the France make it zoom in the north of England for example.

The proposed patch as uploaded as part of ubiquity 1.8.8 can be found here:

http:// launchpadlibrar ian.net/ 14906817/ 203423- zoommap- usability. diff

Original report:

Ubuntu Hardy, alpha 6

When entering the map area to select a city, the map zooms in very quickly and jerkily. Combined with the high zoom level, this can make it difficult to see where you are in the map.

I suggest that the map (a) pause for one second after you enter, before it starts zooming in; (b) takes one second (or maybe even two) to zoom in; (c) pauses for one second after you exit, before it starts moving out; and (d) takes one second (or maybe even two) to zoom out.