Polish up the branch dropdown

[zmc]

16:20:29 yanfali zackc: when you select by suite it does this long drop down, if the  
                 window height isn't super tall it won't scroll. You can probably work  
                 around this by explicitly setting the height of the screen to something
                 longer than the view port  
16:20:38 yanfali zackc: re: pulpito  
16:33:29 zackc as you can see it's not the most polished tool ever created  
16:33:37 yanfali zackc: it's nice  
16:34:17 yanfali zackc: you might also want to move the search box inside the drop down 
                 to the top, actually since that list is so small I'm not sure what the 
                 use case is  
16:36:13 zackc yanfali: try typing 'w' into it  
16:36:46 yanfali oh that's confusing…  
16:36:49 zackc it's a typeahead populated with a prefetched list of branches... the ones
               in the dropdown are the ones we know are going to be around  
16:36:54 yanfali maybe move it to conventional place?  
16:36:58 zackc yeah...  
16:37:15 yanfali like right hand side of navbar  
16:38:03 zackc that doesn't sound less confusing  
16:38:07 yanfali maybe add a spyglass icon instead as well to make it explicit because  
                 placeholder text disappears as you start typing?  
16:38:54 yanfali the usage is also odd  
16:39:03 yanfali return doesn't make it work, only clicking?  
16:39:21 yanfali ah it's just slow  
16:39:31 yanfali you might need a spinner  

[alfredodeza]

This is one of the things that I encounter that is kind of difficult to explain

[zmc]

Those load a list of values from paddles; maybe a loading animation would help?

[zmc]

After an IRC conversation we determined @alfredodeza's problem is actually that his machine, for some reason, can't contact paddles directly, which is something the suite and machine type menus depend on. So it's some sort of VPN or infrastructure issue.