Re: [Usability]Re: gnome-terminal encoding UI

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu> writes: 
> I'm one of those people.  Seeing "Current Locale (ISO-8859-15)" as a
> first-class object on my terminal makes me feel intimidated. 

Yeah, understandable.

The way to downplay it is to move it to a Terminal->Encoding submenu.
Since this is a "mode" of some importance for users who are
interested, I was experimenting with making it visible in some way.

> Can this become a profile option instead, maybe under the
> "compatibility" tab?  I get the feeling that only a very small
> percentage of users will want to change this option frequently

I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. Especially during the
transition period from older locales to Unicode locales, and in areas
such as Japan where some things seem to be randomly in JIS and others
in EUC-JP.

It _may_ be a safe assumption, but there are a lot of users having
issues with the current lack of the feature in any case, and I don't
think a profile-only setting is really going to result in things being
usable for them.

Havoc