new upstream comment "There is now a proposed solution to this for gcalctool for GNOME 2.21/22.
There are two currently open bugs involved here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455889 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469245 (and an old one - bug #118826). Before 24th September 2003, hexadecimal input used to be "a" - "f". This was changed to "A" - "F" because of bug #118826 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118826 The plan now is to change them back to "a" - "f". There are a set of other functions where the keyboard shortcut will be reverted to their original (pre Sept 2003) upper case values: [A] - Set accuracy [C] - Change sign [D] - Double-declining depreciation [E] - Enter an exponential number [F] - User-defined functions With copy/paste operations, where the user is pasting a string into gcalctool, the copy buffer will be iterated over. If an "A", "B", "C", "D" or "F" character is encountered, it will be converted to its lowercase equivalent. If an "E" is found, and the next character is a "-" or a "+", then it remains as an upper case "E" (it's assumed to be a possible exponential number), otherwise its converted to a lower case "e". Displaying of hex digits in the gcalctool display should still be in uppercase. Displaying of the "e" in an exponential number should still be in lower-case. In both left-to-right precedence and arithmetic precedence modes, if the user tries to enter a numeric digit that is incorrect for the current numeric base, then this shouldn't be allowed. This is already the case for left-to-right precedence. The gcalctool documentation (and tooltips) will be updated to reflect these changes. I think that covers everything raised in bug #455889 and bug #469245. If I've missed anything, or you see any problem with this proposed solution, please let me know. When the gcalctool 5.20.0 release is out the way, and the code has been branched, I'll start looking at what's needed to make these changes." -- Hexadecimal input is not intuitive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
