Re: commit (head): toward fixing 8130

Am Samstag, den 15.01.2005, 21:35 +0100 schrieb Reinout van Schouwen:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:57:39 +0100, Robert Staudinger
> <robsta@stereolyzer.net> wrote:
>
> > How should this work:
> > - The current language should be within the visible region when the
> > dialog is opened.
> > - $LANG should display the selected language
> > - The dlg should use auto-apply.
> > - Only "top-level" languages should be displayed by default. The entries
> > should be expansible to facilitate selection of countries. Not entirely
> > sure about that but think it would be better since the list is not as
> > crowded.
> > - IMHO it's better to offer both "apply to paragraph" / "apply to
> > document" and not assume that the user knows the default.
>
> Thanks for your mockup. I do have a question: what happens when the
> user first selects a language and it is auto-applied to the whole
> document, and _then_ selects the 'apply to paragraph' radio button?
> I'm in favor of instant apply where possible, but this design suffers
> from ambiguity. (Note the second bullet in
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-utility.html#windows-instant-apply).

Thanks for your comments.
I don't think that ambiguity is a problem here.
Still your mail made clear to me that the dialog has to keep the
document-language because the user might select "selection only" later.

Thanks,
Rob

PS: hope you don't mind me cc'ing abidevlist
Received on Sat Jan 15 21:58:39 2005