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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes: 
> 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 ;-)

Think of it as a status indicator that happens to have a menu on
it. ;-)

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

One thing that sucks a bit is that this doesn't exactly change your
current terminal contents, it changes how new stuff appearing in the
terminal gets interpreted.

It's all basically crap, and the right thing is to have everyone using
UTF-8 throughout... so in some sense we're doomed, there is no
reasonable UI for this, because it's some implementation crap that's
getting shoved onto users.

Havoc