Re: [gedit-list] change case plugin

[Paolo Maggi <maggi athena polito it>]

Ciao,
 
> Actually now that you name it, I booted my father's laptop and looked
> at MS word: it uses a dialog similar to the one I used... 

oops... you are right.

> anyway now
> that you suggest it I agree that a menu approach it's nicer;
> what about a submenu like
> 

I like the submenu approach more, but probably we will have to ask the
usability guys.

> Change Case > All Upper Case
>               All Lower Case
>               Invert Case
>               Title Case
> 

I think, it should be a submenu of the Edit menu. What do you think?

> In the case you agree on such a submenu can you give me a hint on how to
> implement it? there are no plugins that do such a thing...
> I managed to add the submenu using the gedit_menu_* api, but not to add
> the items to the submenu... Or should I use a changecase-ui.xml file?
> 

Try to download gedit 2.1.2 and give a look at the spell plugin (spell.c
file). You will find an example there (in the current version I have
removed the submenu).

Ciao,
Paolo