https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161258
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |needsDevAdvice, needsUXEval CC| |libreoffice-ux-advise@lists | |.freedesktop.org --- Comment #7 from Stéphane Guillou (stragu) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4) > I'm not suggesting that support for RTL-CTL and CJK be _always on_; I > suggest that the _default_ be on. That is, instead of applying a heuristic > for verifying it needs to be turned _on_, the heuristic will check whether > we need to turn it _off_. And only if we're sure it can safely be turned off > - it will. > In other words, the "gray area" will be decided in favor of enabling support. Right, I understand better now, and I think that makes sense. > I will assume you meant to say "is not ideal, period". Yes, sentence should have stopped there. > ... ah, perhaps you actually did mean that a western-centric default is > ideal, after all? As Mike said, that's quite unfair. But I appreciate you taking that back. > Nearly half the people of the world live their lives using more than one > kind of written language, typically their native one, and some West-European > language - English, French or Castillian mostly. That's true for most of > Africa and Asia (including Russia, although Cyrillic can't currently benefit > from the dialog being split.) > [...] If we > can't say for sure whether the user only uses Western languages or not - we > should split the dialog, rather than requiring the user, especially the > newbie user, to have to locate the appropriate LO language option to be able > to work. > > To reiterate: Minor inconvenience for westerners must not trump major > inconvenience to non-westerners. Thanks for spelling it out. As said above, I think it makes sense, but I'll now leave it to UX and developers to decide whats preferable and technically feasible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
