Enable CTL for Default?

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi UX-Advise, *,


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess with all of this said my question still is, should I mark the bug

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47969

> report as WONTFIX and just have a comment why? [...]
> Let me know and I'll pass on the message to the user (or someone else can
> throw a comment in the bug if you'd like).

We'll let ux-advise have a decision, that's one of the reason for
having that instance :-)

So summary of http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-June/033552.html
( http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org/msg32164.html
). A short thread, no worries, but for your convenience:

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Should Asian and CTL language support be enabled by default (& maybe
the option removed completely)?

Cons:
* More UI controls/dialog tabpages that might confuse users
* visible cursor travelling, input sequence checking and detection of
writing mode that are only active for CTL might have a tiny
performance impact

Pros:
* One less entry in Tools|Options (in case it is removed completely)
* not treating CTL/Asian scripts as second class (<quote>not to
mention that "Asian" is a so ignorant
orientalistic term in this context</quote>)
* will work out-of the box for all users

Why can't it be set depending on the LO-language used?
* Many CTL users don't use localized interface, so there's no correlation
* there is no per-langauge-options mechanism yet, so it has to be
introduced/workarounded by bundled extensions or similar and thus
complicate the code/installation

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So please discuss & decide :-) - Thanks a lot.

ciao
Christian