Re: [libreoffice-design] questions about the status bar

[Andrew Pullins <android2772@gmail.com>]

WOW,

if that is a a normal situation over there then yall is crazy. no I had a
feeling that someone would say something like that but I wrote it anyway. I
can see how having the language would be good for some. do you have any
comments on anything else.

cheers,
Andrew


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Sveinn í Felli <sveinki@nett.is> wrote:

> Þann sun 15.apr 2012 20:38, skrifaði Andrew Pullins:
>
>  Hello
>> im taking all this from
>> https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/Design/**Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking>
>>
> -------------------
>
>
>> Language... why do we need to tell people what language they are in. there
>> has never been a moment in my life where I had forgotten what language I
>> speak and read. i guess this could be useful for people who speak
>> different languages, but then again it does not take that long to
>> recognize
>> that the words on the screen are not English. when I see Spanish, German,
>> or Swedish I do not wander if it is English. now I would not see the
>> difference between German and Swedish, but I could see that it
>> is definitely not English. so why is it even there?
>>
>>
> Imagine this (a real-life example):
>
> A french professional translator works in Moscow; editing documents with
> sections in various languages and alphabets ranging from Ukrainian and
> Russian to Dutch and French, using his good'ol French keyboard in an
> Russian OS, having LibreOffice UI alternatively in French and English.
>
> In a case like this you'd really appreciate see right away which language
> you're editing (after disruption by phone or whatever).
>
> Such a person is also a likely candidate to beg for a nice
> word/character/line count.
>
> Regards,
> Sveinn í Felli
>
>
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