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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 20 15:26:23 +0000 2007 ------- My example wasn't good enough to explain the real problem. So I took some time to rethink everything to avoid endless discussions just because I overlooked this and that. I hope I'm done now. :-) I still think that things are not so easy as they seem because we have to deal with two concurrent ways to select a "document language". So I tried to define a workflow that takes the resulting problems into account and hope it makes some sense. I don't have a problem with the basic requirement to switch the language in OOo when the input locale is changed, but wouldn't it be nice to also have the language of a freshly created document taken from the input locale? Perhaps it's not nice, it's what people expect? If you agreed to that - now about the problems we get from that. After a default (western?) Windows installation no additional input locales are configured and there is no toolbar to select one. If we always took the language from the input locale the user would be stuck with the single system language and won't be able to select anything else as default document language in OOo, perhaps without even knowing why! The same is true if more than one locale is configured in Windows but the toolbar is not visible (or the user is not used to use it). In this case it would be better to stick with OOo's setting for the default document language. To have a consistent user interface OOo then also should try to switch the input locale of Windows so that it matches the OOo setting. The competition does exactly this. Whatever input locale I have set on my Windows installation Word always switches it to "DE" as this is its default document language. To make it clear, I don't talk about the language settings in existing documents or language settings the user has set on character level inside OOo, I'm only talking about the default document language. According to this OOo will try to change the input locale when it starts and when the default language is changed in the "Options" dialog. BTW: for those who don't know it, Windows remembers the input locale on a per process base so any change made to that setting in OOo will not influence the setting for other processes. We could also workaround the problems by adding the configuration setting I suggested. As I don't see any reason to make the "switch" feature optional (thanks to nmailhot for correcting me in that point) I would only make the "default document language" part optional. The default should be "off" then and if a user switches it on the listbox for the selection of the document language should become disabled. As then the user is aware of the feature we even could refrain from adjusting the input locale on startup. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
