於 三，2009-05-20 於 12:07 +0500，Suren Karapetyan 提到： > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 11:18:47 Ding-Yi Chen wrote: > > 於 二，2009-05-19 於 16:55 +0100，Ewan Mac Mahon 提到： > > > > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:59:07AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > The main thing we want to squash is things like flags in input > > > > method selection which is very prominent in the UI, and flags in > > > > bittorrent clients whose removal doesn't at all substantially affect > > > > the operation of the software. > > > > > > That's a reasonable postion, but it's not quite the same as the current > > > policy. > > > > Using flags in input methods along is not very informative. > > For example, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of Chinese IMs. > > How do you know which one should be associated with China flags? > > Should it be pinyin? wubi? cangjie3? cangjie5? > > > > It's a good thing that almost all input methods already have their own > > icons. > > > > That's true if someone is trying to find a language from the full list. > But if someone (e.g. me) has already chosen 3 he will be using (e.g. English, > Armenian, Russian) I have 5 Chinese IMs (mainly for development) pinyin, wubi, Cangjie3, Quick3, and chewing. How could I distinguish these in "Flag-only" schema? Quite a lot of Chinese desktops installed multiple input methods for various reasons. It can be the preferences are differ among family members, or learning/testing some new input methods. Some IMs are capable of input multiple languages, what flags should they use? > it will be much more comfortable for him to see a flag and > not a greyish box with greyish white letters (us, am, ru) in it. > > Suren > That's what icons for. -- Ding-Yi Chen Software Engineer Internationalization Group Red Hat, Inc. Looking to carve out IT costs? www.apac.redhat.com/promo/carveoutcosts/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
