It's not a case where having the menus means a loss of productivity on my part, but rather a recognition that for the vast majority of the English-speaking world (as evidenced by the lack of these menus on an American English MS Windows installation) these menus will never be used, and may rightly be called "clutter".
There are plenty of options on many menus that get little use, but the context menu is invoked frequently, so options included here should only be those immediately relevant to the situation or user. I'm not suggesting they be removed from the system, or even turned off by default. Just that there be a way to turn them off for those who will never use them. Cheers, Todd On 8/3/05, Jan Morén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ons 2005-08-03 klockan 19:22 -0400 skrev Rodney Dawes: > > They are for text input using the keyboard. The fact that they are there > > [...] > > > I would probably suggest just not using it, if you do not want to use it > > for now. Perhaps in the future, this could be an option in the Keyboard > > or Locale settings, though. > > If you don't have a separate input method handler like UIM, you will > want to have this in the context menu to set it on a per-input area > basis. You may want to write email in English sometimes, and in Thai (or > whatever) other times. You have perhaps one open spreadsheet in one > language and a different one in another. I switch between the different > Japanese input methods and western language all the time. > > Having to switch input method globally would be really, really > inconvenient. > > > > > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:59 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Todd Chambery wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:43:25 -0400 > > > > From: Todd Chambery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: [Usability] "Input Methods" and "Insert Unicode Control > > > > Character" in context menus > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I've been using Gnome a while, and the "Input Methods"/"Insert Unicode > > > > Control Character" options that show up in every text entry context > > > > menu has always puzzled me. I've never had a need to use them (they > > > > are "foreign" to a MS Windows user) and feel that they unnecessarily > > > > clutter the context menu. > > > > > > > Is there a way to turn off these context menu options? > > > > > > Not that I know of, but it may be possible. > > > > > > I believe they are for complex text input and developers insisted on > > > having them in an easy to find place, and techincal considerations trumped > > > usability cocerns. I was under the impression that improvements to Pango > > > and the general text handling in Gnome might eventually allow these menu > > > items to be removed entirely. Hopefully someone more expert can shed some > > > light on these and explain it better. > > > > > > Sincerely > > > > > > Alan Horkan > > > http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Usability mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Usability mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > -- > Tel. (Japan) 090-3622 8920 Dr. Jan Morén (mr) > Sweden: +46-31 360 7723 Dept. of Cognitive Science > http://lucs.lu.se/people/jan.moren Lund, Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
