[Usability] Re: Text wrapping in gedit

[michael chang <thenewme91 gmail com>]

On 10/2/05, usability-request gnome org <usability-request gnome org> wrote:

> - There needs to a way to turn word wrap off/on in general [If Joe uses
> gedit to always deal with tables he doesn't want to toggle the menu item
> every time]
> - There should be a way to toggle it on off for a single document
> without affecting the others [this is what it's now missing and it's
> beeing requested]
>
> How to make the two coexist? As I said I don't think keeping the toggle
> for the 'default' behavior in the prefs dialog is a good idea: having
> related toggles in two separate places is confusing. For instance a user
> who wants to turn off wrapping for all docs is more likely to see the
> menu item and once he has seen it I think he may end up just using it
> for every document he opens instead of looking into the prefs dialog,
> which may in turn lead to frustration ("Why the hell this damn thing
> doesn't turn wrapping off for good!").

Word Wrapping Menu item.  By default, on.  When selected to turn off,
will turn off for that particular file, and remember that setting. 
When selected to turn on, will turn on for that particular file, and
remember that setting.  Will remember setting for all files opened and
closed without changing the setting.  By default, always load a
setting per-file instead of the default, if one can be found.  If not,
use the default.

Hopefully that's consise enough of an idea without being confusing. 
The only issue is when someone opens a file with a setting different
from the current setting and closes it - do we go back to the previous
setting, or do we keep the setting from the last saved file?

--
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
 - No man is an island, and no man is unable.