Alternatively we could try to reorganise the preferences dialog to
bring the most important items to the first notebook page. (I would
cautiously reckon that spell- and grammar checking is more popular
than custom screen colours.)
Then again interest in UI tweaks has not been overwhelming recently.
- Rob
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
> > J.M. Maurer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:07 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >> It has bothered me for some time that we hide our
> > >> preference to enable/disable grammar checking in the "spell Check" tab
> > >> or our preference dialog. This is not an obvious name to look for the
>
> Microsoft Word 2000 uses "Spelling & Grammar" which is a bit long (and
> even longer in German I'm sure) but in a way a lot simpler and more
> straightforward than "Proofing" (even "checking" might be simpler for and
> grab users attention than "proofing" but it isn't as formally correct.)
> The copy of OpenOffice I have here uses "Spellcheck" in the menus and
> "Language settings" in the Options dialog but this may yet change if later
> versions include grammar checking. I was hesitant to comment until I dug
> up a copy and checked what they use, you probably recall I'm a stickler
> for consistency.
>
> Proofing might sound easy enough to us who are native English speakers and
> fairly familiar with the subject domain of word processing but I fear it
> will only serve to make things confusing for more people. I realise the
> idea is to help those who wonder where the grammar settings are but I fear
> we will instead get questions like "Where are the settings for Spelling?"
>
> Keep in mind the localisation issues. Also consider how many abiword users
> often seem to prefer using software in English rather than translated, so
> ideally the English in the user interface would be simple enough for
> non-native speakers.
>
> I seem to be the only one dissenting about the change but I would strongly
> urge you to ask translators for comments. (I'd guess if you translate
> proofing and back translate it to English you'd end up with something a
> lot like "checking" or "correction" in most cases, the specific technical
> use of words like these often are lost in translation.)
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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