[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 734751] RFE: improve UI

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--- Comment #2 from Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com> 2011-09-12 04:55:11 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
>  Consider a default case where Indic user used to get iok by default started in
> his language. That case we need that Indic keymap and English. This will enable
> user to quickly switch to English and can type English letters. 
> 
> Having English in language list allows iok to load English mappings when said
> "to English". Combobox entries when selected triggers keymap loading function
> and displays keymappings.

Sure. I'm not complaining what the logic iok is relying on, but saying that the
meaningless _interface_ should be hidden or got rid from the front. given that
iok doesn't disable the language list anytime, "to English" and "English" in
the list is duplicate. plus, pressing "to English" button on "English" doesn't
take any effects. this also means having "English" in the list is redundancy.

> Here I need to think then on UI as preferred UI, for iok is its default mode
> which opens iok in indic locale where no need to show language list.

I know iok has different state on when running on indic locale and non-indic
locale. it's not the point. I'm talking about the mask state of the language
list.

>  Ok. I can change this to ASCII with the assumption that novice user knows what
> ASCII mean compare to English word.
>      I can also think on adding on and off image labels but how can user know
> what it does?

As I pointed out somewhere, you could use the icon to indicate on/off state
perhaps.

> Language list is not static. Its picked up from location /usr/share/m17n. If
> inscript keymaps are installed there then all those will appear in language
> list.

assuming that it has any language name, you can put the strings for
translations maybe.

> Language list depends on 2 things
> 1) no. of inscript keymaps installed in /usr/share/m17n
> 2) static file with some xkb maps from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in
> 
> Not sure how much simplification can be done in iok?

how many entries ibus will has also depends on how many engines is installed.
you may learn something from ibus anyway.

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