Re: Enable CTL for Default?

Given those pros I'm for stripping it out and enabling it by default.
I think slightly more complicated (potentially) is outweighed by works
out of box alone, let alone adding the second class status of Asian
scripts and taking out one entry out of the already abundant options.


Joel

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+libreoffice@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi UX-Advise, *,
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess with all of this said my question still is, should I mark the bug
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47969
>
> > report as WONTFIX and just have a comment why? [...]
> > Let me know and I'll pass on the message to the user (or someone else can
> > throw a comment in the bug if you'd like).
>
> We'll let ux-advise have a decision, that's one of the reason for
> having that instance :-)
>
> So summary of http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-June/033552.html
> ( http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org/msg32164.html
> ). A short thread, no worries, but for your convenience:
>
> ########
>
> Should Asian and CTL language support be enabled by default (& maybe
> the option removed completely)?
>
> Cons:
> * More UI controls/dialog tabpages that might confuse users
> * visible cursor travelling, input sequence checking and detection of
> writing mode that are only active for CTL might have a tiny
> performance impact
>
> Pros:
> * One less entry in Tools|Options (in case it is removed completely)
> * not treating CTL/Asian scripts as second class (<quote>not to
> mention that "Asian" is a so ignorant
> orientalistic term in this context</quote>)
> * will work out-of the box for all users
>
> Why can't it be set depending on the LO-language used?
> * Many CTL users don't use localized interface, so there's no correlation
> * there is no per-langauge-options mechanism yet, so it has to be
> introduced/workarounded by bundled extensions or similar and thus
> complicate the code/installation
>
> ########
> So please discuss & decide :-) - Thanks a lot.
>
> ciao
> Christian