Re: Character Palette: country-specific palettes?

[Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer+gnome org gmail com>]

On 10/6/09, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> It sounds like a good idea and it's also already filed in Bugzilla:
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326427

Ah, thank-you for pointing that out. I've created an account there.
Here's a summary of feature proposals from there and here:
1. Create language-specific palettes.
2. Instead of cluttering up the interface with capital letters, have
Shift-click produce the capital (if any).
3. Have the palette default to the session language.

Does anybody think they could implement (2) or (3)? Me, I'm not much
of a programmer, and I'm afraid I don't know how to do either one.
I've started on (1) already: I'm making a list of the special
characters of the languages that Gnome supports. See my work so far
here:
http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~sbrouwer/char-pick.txt

I'll continue with that, and see if I can get it into the source
code's charpick.c, and compile. (Yes, the default palettes are defined
in source rather than in a config file. I don't know where user-made
paletters are stored.)

Idea: for the capital letters (awaiting a Shift-click implementation):
don't put them into the language palettes, but make a small number of
'all caps' palettes, e.g. ÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙ

Anybody interested in taking up (2) or (3), the shift-clicking or the
Gnome Language tie-in?

Anybody have an idea of how to user-test the final palettes?

Regards,

Sietse
Sietse Brouwer

P.s: Reinout wrote:
>  Out of curiosity— are you Dutch?
Indeed I am. Mostly residing in Wageningen and Leiden these days.