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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kilt - KDE I18n & L10n Tool
From:       David Hugh-Jones <hughjonesd () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-06-25 16:49:17
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Hi Aaron

I take your point. There certainly are people who will want Hindi in the US, 
etc. However,  in most cases, taking a reasonable guess will work - for 
example, most, though not all, US users will want a standard 105 (?) key 
keyboard and US English.

The problem, as you point out, is that to fine-tune settings, users will need 
to go through a submenu. But with the current design, they need to go through 
a submenu to do everything. So I don't think this makes the situation worse 
for the minority, and it does make it better for the majority.

Dave

On Tuesday 25 June 2002 5:35 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On June 25, 2002 10:27 am, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> > As a more high level point, do we actually want the user to be confronted
> > initially with separate "country", "keyboard" and "language" settings?
> >
> > It might be better to just have a "select country" option, which would
> > automatically use a default language and keyboard layout, and then to
> > have specific options in an "advanced" dialog (or submenu).
>
> what language would China be?
> or USA?
> or Canada?
> or ...
>
> languages and keyboard layouts don't split nicely along national borders.
> since that is a common thing, hiding it away will only make it harder for a
> significant portion of people?

- -- 
David Hugh-Jones
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