From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 07:03:18 EDT
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:48 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
>> Since I'm currently redesigning the UNIX Preferences dialog, I've come
>> across various preferences that can in my opinion be removed for all
>> platforms. Comments/discussion is appreciated.
>> [...
>
> The following options haven't been covered by Tomas' reply:
>
>> id_CHECK_SPELL_HIDE_ERRORS
>> even more weird. We do spell-checking but don't show errors. Can't we
>> merge those into one simple enable spellchecking setting?
>
Your suggestion seems logical. Anybody else got reasons for this one?
>> id_CHECK_SPELL_SUGGEST
>> Don't suggest corrections? Why? What's the difference between
>> HIDE_ERRORS and !SPELL_SUGGEST? Does the computer want to tell the user
>> "Hah, I know the right correction, but I'm not going to tell 'ya!"?
>
Seems needless to me too.
>> id_CHECK_SPELL_INTERNET
>> Spell-check URLs?! Can't we simply be smart about words starting with
>> someprotocol://?
>
That would make sense but we presently do not do this. I guess this is
really a bug being hidden by preference. By Havoc's logic this should go
too. (Although right now this is not implemented.)
>> id_COMBO_PREFS_SCHEME
>> do we really need them? On UNIX we have a non-working implementation at
>> the moment and I think one scheme per user should be enough. Keeping
>> around a default profile in each users' profile file seems to be cracky
>> as well. Can't we store it at a central location and merge it into the
>> user's profile at run-time?
>
Hmm this might also be more than we need. Anyone else got objections to
this being removed.
>> id_CHECK_VIEW_UNPRINTABLE
>> At least on UNIX, we have a print view. Is this view available on all
>> platforms? Shouldn't this imply whether we show/hide unprintable
>> characters?
>
Not sure. It could be an overide to make sure no revision marks/hidden
text is printed. Tomas?
>> id_CHECK_VIEW_ALL
>> What means not viewing all? This options is way to vague. It should
>> either be renamed to do something more concrete or removed, if it's just
>> a top-level modifier for _UNPRINTABLE/_HIDDEN_TEXT
>
Any more ideas Tomas?
>> id_CHECK_COLOR_FOR_TRANSPARENT_IS_WHITE
>> id_PUSH_CHOOSE_COLOR_FOR_TRANSPARENT
>> Can't we merge them? Having a checkbutton and a pushbutton is awkward.
>> I'd prefer to have a reset button either inside the color selection
>> widgets or next to the color selection pushbutton.
>
If you have a good idea to simply this
>> id_SHOWSPLASH
>> Branding is nice. Showing a splash as well. Dunno, maybe I'm misguided,
>> having a GUI for it makes me feel strange, though.
>
I really *want* to have a splash screen by default. However giving users
the option to remove it is good because the splash screen adds about 1 sec
to the time before a user can start using the app.
>> id_UNIXFONTWARNING
>> Not displaying warnings is evil. Why not remove it?
>
We no longer need this. It's a hangover from the 1.0.x series. Remove it.
>> id_CHECK_ENABLE_SMOOTH_SCROLLING
>> Is it CPU expensive?
>
Yes it is. This doesn't work on machines less than 500 Mhz.
>> id_CHECK_AUTO_LOAD_PLUGINS
>> Why shouldn't we load plugins?
>
They could add to the start up time.
>> id_NOTEBOOK
>
> Could somebody please investigate them?
>
Oh this might be the very start of having AbiWord Windows in tabs ala'
tabbed web bowsing. Leave it but there is no need for GUI yet.
Cheers
Martin
> regs,
> Chris
>
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