On 10/6/09, Reinout van Schouwen <reino...@gnome.org> wrote: > It sounds like a good idea and it's also already filed in Bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326427
Ah, thank-you for pointing that out. I've created an account there. Here's a summary of feature proposals from there and here: 1. Create language-specific palettes. 2. Instead of cluttering up the interface with capital letters, have Shift-click produce the capital (if any). 3. Have the palette default to the session language. Does anybody think they could implement (2) or (3)? Me, I'm not much of a programmer, and I'm afraid I don't know how to do either one. I've started on (1) already: I'm making a list of the special characters of the languages that Gnome supports. See my work so far here: http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~sbrouwer/char-pick.txt I'll continue with that, and see if I can get it into the source code's charpick.c, and compile. (Yes, the default palettes are defined in source rather than in a config file. I don't know where user-made paletters are stored.) Idea: for the capital letters (awaiting a Shift-click implementation): don't put them into the language palettes, but make a small number of 'all caps' palettes, e.g. ÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙ Anybody interested in taking up (2) or (3), the shift-clicking or the Gnome Language tie-in? Anybody have an idea of how to user-test the final palettes? Regards, Sietse Sietse Brouwer P.s: Reinout wrote: > Out of curiosity— are you Dutch? Indeed I am. Mostly residing in Wageningen and Leiden these days. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
