Re: Changing sort order of language list box

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 14:53 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tuesday, 2012-07-24 14:22:07 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
>
> > wasn't exactly this approach of limiting the selectable languages for
> > text to those that have a spelling checker discussed here last month or
> > so, and wasn't the result that there are good reasons why even languages
> > without an available spelling checker should be selectable, such as
> > language dependent field formats etc.?
>
> Yes ...
>
> > ah there's this bug, that's probably what i'm remembering:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47896
> >
> > > > But, what I'm after is sorting the listbox by
> > > > 1) Languages with Installed checkers then
> > > > 2) Languages without
> >
> > that sounds like a reasonable approach, all languages are available, and
> > the most likely used ones at the front.
>
> ... and indeed taking this further to present languages with
> spellcheckers first before all others IMHO is a reasonable approach.

An additional possibility is to also add on a MRU section like the font
selector does at the top for the last 3 or so last selected languages ?

C.