My Lemmy language selection in settings is a gigantic non-interactive list. How does one actually change their language settings?

Clicking on languages in the list just selects them, with no "toggled on/off" indicator. The selection highlight is obviously not a "toggled" indicator, since you can only select one language at a time this way.

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heyaitscassie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

It's a multi-selectable list but you need to Ctrl-click (on Windows; presumably Cmd-click on Mac?) to get a multiple selection. It then behaves as 'expected' (highlighted lines are selected), although this behaviour is not intuitive.

atimholt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

So you can nuke your multi-selection by misclicking?

heyaitscassie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y

Having just tried it - yes, a single-click on any option in the list sets the selection to just that one.

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

This is usual behaviour, in my experience - not something unique to Lemmy/Jerboa/etc.

They're a relatively shitty UI design element, I think the general rule of thumb is to have a few items in the list, not 'dozens'