Use checkbox and radio instead of Select, Provide better user experience

I like the improved user experience. I have a suggestion to make it a little better - make the text for the link to the taxonomy term the term ID, rather then the term label.

Instead of displaying a term like this:

[ ] Cheese and wine (Cheese and wine)

it display it like this:

[ ] Cheese and wine (7728)

Motivation: The term label is already displayed - there is no benefit to displaying it again as the link text. But it can be helpful in some situations to know the ID of the term. For example, if you have two terms which are identical, or differ only in small ways (such as a having a space at the start). In this case, it can be hard to know which term to choose. Other parts of the Drupal UI typically display a taxonomy term label followed by its ID in parenthesis. This change follows the same style.

I've added a commit to the issue fork with this minor modification.

This issue is a superset of issue ✨ Sort terms and provide a better UI Needs review

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Ah, the issue needs some further work per #7.

Apologies for the earlier confusion. The work I described in #7 was committed in #6. So it now needs to be reviewed.

My changes can be obtained either from the issue fork repo (branch 3311345-use-checkbox-and) , or by applying the patch: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/term_merge/-/merge_requests/7.diff (apply this instead of patch #4, not in addition to it).

Thanks for the improvements, I added a natural sort using natcasesort() so terms with lowercase/uppercase get grouped together.

Regarding the checkbox, yes that's an improvement, but I was wondering about providing an empty radio for the target list of terms because contrary to select list, once you checked a radio you can't uncheck it. I haven't implemented this yet.

I have tested the patch https://git.drupalcode.org/project/term_merge/-/merge_requests/7.diff and it's look good for me. Beside the term name term id's are added with a link reference to that particular term which will surely provide better user experience to select term from the checkbox if those terms has similar kind of name.

We had a website with 10k terms which created 2 problems:

• huge and slow term merge page
• need to search for a specific term

We decided to adress this by limitating the display of terms to 20 and add a "Display all terms" checkbox to load the whole list (we could have added a load more, but with the search feature, this doesn't seem that useful).

We also added an ajax search input that will search for terms matching the characters in it.

I put this as a patch to avoid highjacking the MR, but if there is some interest I can create a new MR.
The code could use some work to polish what is done but is functional.

Parts of other patches were included in #16, updating with patch working against beta6.