Enable CTL for Default?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jun 18 04:39:03 PDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:28:15PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Joel, *.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a compelling reason why we don't enable CTL by default?
> 
> The lots and lots of additional UI options/dialog tabs confuse regular
> users that have no idea of CTL.
> 
> However enabling it when the UI language / the set of installed UI
> languages includes RTL/CTL languages should be fine. But there is no
> mechanism yet to enable/disable Options based on what langauges are
> installed, so the question is whether it is worth to add program logic
> to do so.

Many CTL users don't install a localised interface, so there is no
correlation.

IMO CTL/Asian options is a remnants of distant past and should be
killed for good (not to mention that "Asian" is a so ignorant
orientalistic term in this context).

Regards,
 Khaled


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