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

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 08:21, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 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.

While the visibility has some important benefits if you are expecting
some people to change this a lot, I agree with Michael that it is rather
techno-babble-ish and intimidating to have as a top-level item,
particularly because of the scary ISO-#### stuff. I could not recommend
using a right centered menu, very non-HIG compliant ;-)

Also... wouldn't this be a "View" option rather than "Terminal" ?

-Seth