Re: [Usability] [RFC] Proposed AbiWord preferences dialog mockup

[Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail yahoo com>]

> > > The glyph prefs are particularly crypic and
> > > meaningless to 99.9% of people i
> > > would guess. Are there sane defaults that can be
> > > used instead. Seems odd to
> > > have a preference for one specific language.
> 
> This only holds true if you think that .1% of the
> world's populus speaks [Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish].
> This may not be the best way to present this to the
> user, but nonetheless, it needs to be presented (or
> at least determined - see above about problems
> determining this sort of stuff) somehow. We have a
> halfway decent way of auto-determining this stuff,
> but it's less than perfect.

I have to agree that improvement is definitely needed
here. I consider myself pretty international-savvy
and these prefs even have me confused.
But until we have more developers who really know the
Arabic/Hebrew/Yiddish/etc issuses and who really know
programming, OSes, layout, Unicode; there's probably
not much we can do ):

> > > 2. Why would you not automatically load all
> > plugins? (legit question)
> > 
> > Performance.  Some plugins are a bit big.
> 
> Good question. I'm not sure if there would ever be a
> case where we don't want to load any plugins, if
> they
> are found. This is a good candidate for removal.

Generally I'm in favour of being able to choose which
plugins I want started automatically.
Or equally being able to choose which are not.
I don't have any reason to want this a big priority
though.

Andrew.


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