[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154795] Font selection pane offers choice of "language" - which isn't.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795 Heiko Tietze changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEEDINFO|UNCONFIRMED Ever confirmed|1 |0 CC|libreoffice-ux-advise@lists |heiko.tietze@documentfounda |.freedesktop.org|tion.org Keywords|needsUXEval | --- Comment #5 from Heiko Tietze --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > > So you suggest to have a separate dropdown for Country in the font tab, > > probably one for all three groups? > > I can't suggest that, because the whole situation is invalid: Font selection > has nothing to do with language or country selection. Not a topic for UX then (likely a duplicate). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154795] Font selection pane offers choice of "language" - which isn't.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795 --- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > So you suggest to have a separate dropdown for Country in the font tab, > probably one for all three groups? I can't suggest that, because the whole situation is invalid: Font selection has nothing to do with language or country selection. If we did that, however, it would resolve this particular bug, while maintaining, perhaps even underlining, the bug of having country/locale selection in the wrong place. I suppose that would be an improvement over the current state of affairs. As for the deeper solution... I'll first say that I think there should be a deep paradigmatic discussion about these issues. Possibly even deeper than at the LibreOffice app level. I'll then say that maybe it makes sense for the choice of locale to be outside the app, tied to the choice of keyboard layout. Because there's no reason the user should not be able to enter text in multiple locales in the same language group, regardless of font; and that action is not specific to LO, but does seem to tie nicely with the desktop-environment-level choice of keyboard layout. And as for fonts and font families - the dialog should allow the specification of a font-set, as discussed in bug 151215: A mapping from languages to fonts with fallbacks for languages not explicitly specified or when glyphs are missing etc. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154795] Font selection pane offers choice of "language" - which isn't.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795 Heiko Tietze changed: What|Removed |Added Ever confirmed|0 |1 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154795] Font selection pane offers choice of "language" - which isn't.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795 --- Comment #3 from Heiko Tietze --- So you suggest to have a separate dropdown for Country in the font tab, probably one for all three groups? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154795] Font selection pane offers choice of "language" - which isn't.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154795 Eyal Rozenberg changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||needsUXEval CC||libreoffice-ux-advise@lists ||.freedesktop.org --- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg --- (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > The field there sets a language/country pair. If you select > "English(Israel)" you get fo:language="en" and fo:country="IL". > > You need this information, for example, to select the appropriate > dictionaries, thesauri, hyphenation rules, and AutoCorrect entries. ... none of which are relevant when choosing a _font_. Changing a font should have no effect on dictionaries, thesauri, hyphenation or autocorrect. So, clearly, the choice of country should be placed somewhere closed to where we control or configure the use of these features. > Are you sure there exists items, which are not considered somewhere? For > example, you can define your own AutoCorrect entries for each of the items > in this 'Language' drop-down list. Even if choosing a country is significant in some contexts, there is rarely a need to choose a pair from the Cartesian product of language x country (as opposed to local language variants). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
