Re: Plans for 2.20

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:52 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
>   
> > Rodrigo,
> >
> >     
> > > * keyboard:
> > >         - Merge with keyboard shortcuts
> > >       
> > Wouldn't it clutter the dialog a bit? Do you see it as new tabs?
> >
> >     
> not if we move the layout tabs to a separate dialog.
>
>   
> > >         - Move to an 'input methods' capplet?
> > >       
> > I do not think this is a viable solution. The UI of the capplet would
> > be overloaded and difficult to navigate - of course, if it is done by
> > trivial merging. Do you mean something else?
> >
> >     
> yeah, I'm not convinced by this neither, since it would be a cluttered
> capplet.
>
>   
> > >         - Layout tabs in a separate dialog
> > >       
> > Hehe, at some point it was separate. At some point there was even idea
> > about separate i18n capplet. Could you please describe your vision
> > with some more details?
> >
> >     
> a i18n capplet could work, what do you think? Do you remember why it
> wasn't done before?
>
>   

I also think this is a good idea.

> > A bit of personal plans:
> >
> > In the "choose layout" popup dialog, I would replace the tree on the
> > left side with two combo boxes at the bottom (or at the top?) - first,
> > with the list of layouts, second - with the list of variants
> > (repopulated on every selection change in the first one). I think it
> > would be easier use - and use less screen space (so more space would
> > be available for the preview).
> >
> >     
> yeah, sounds good, could you do a mockup of your ideas please?
>   

Isn't something like this already in g-c-c SVN?