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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kilt - KDE I18n & L10n Tool
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-24 6:35:33
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On June 24, 2002 12:19 am, Simon Edwards wrote:
> * Avoid submenus, they are difficult to use, especially for the kind of
> people who will be using an internet cafe. Perhaps just put the language
> and keyboard menu items on the root menu and use a separator bar to group
> them. Now, that leaves the problem of the menu items looking identical. :-/

he could keep the title items as separators ... the problem of course is that 
if you have a lot of languages, locales and keyboard layouts installled 
that's going to be on nightmare menu.

an icon by each submenu might help as well.

> * Avoid using the terms "i18n" and "l10n", they're geek terms I'm afraid.
> Perhaps title it "Language Settings"...

it isn't just language, it's things such as date formatting and currency 
handling as well. perhaps "Locale" or "Localization" 

> * Looking at the screenshots, you've got 'Configure...' in 3 separated
> places/menus. Is it possible to have just one "Configure..." menu item on
> the root menu? Usually an app only has one "Configure" menu item...

they each configure something different ... "Configure <what it 
configures>..." might be better (e.g. "Configure keyboard...")

> * Is it possible to highlight the currently active setting like a normal
> menu, insetad of using "Currently: United Kingdom" or "Currently: English
> (UK)" in the submenu title?

this won't work well for the language menu (since it is 2 levels of menus). 
having both the items checked and the Currently title might be a decent 
compromise?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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