Chained translation path display

[sushain97]

It would be cool to have chained translation display the path taken to get from say eng => kaz.

@jonorthwash

[ghost]

IMHO, this is not particularly relevant information for the end user.

[ftyers]

It's super useful! :D ... It's useful for determining how reliable the translation is, both in terms of 1) how many steps, 2) which languages it goes through, e.g. spa-cat-ita is more reliable than eus-eng-fin

[ghost]

Well, yeah it is useful if you know those things already, so for more advanced user it is quite useful information and thus +1 for this feature from me, too.

[sushain97]

I was thinking of the best way to display this... Perhaps this?

sushain: wouldn't that be potentially very long?
shardulc, yeah :(

[sushain97]

Alternative:

https://gist.github.com/sushain97/e3a6077da7c21399847a21dd94e3daa3

[shardulc]

This was discussed on #apertium intermittently from [19:13:13] on 2017-01-14 to [01:18:24] on 2017-01-15, and again from [20:14:45] onwards on 2017-01-15. So far, the ideas are:

1. visually display the graph of paths so that the user can select from them as wanted, colors and other candy would be cool
2. have a dropdown list (where?) which lists all possible paths, maybe up to a length limit beyond which the user can specify them manually

[jonorthwash]

What if we have the ‘?’ icon next to the translate button instead of on it?