Re: [Usability] Re: Text wrapping in gedit

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno lun, 03/10/2005 alle 16.25 -0300, Matthew Thomas ha scritto:
> On 3 Oct, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> >
> > Il giorno dom, 02/10/2005 alle 21.13 -0400, michael chang ha scritto:
> >>
> >> No, it's not, because if he switches it off once, he switches it off
> >> forever for all documents except those he's turned it on or left it on
> >> for.  This is the key difference.
> > ...
> > This may indeed be an interesting idea, though not without its
> > drawbacks. Taking the decision just on the first file the user ever
> > opens is a bit arbitrary... what if the guess was wrong? How can the
> > user rectify the setting?
> > ...
> 
> By changing it in a subsequent file. So changing the wrapping mode in 
> any file would remember it for (a) that file, and (b) all new files 
> from then on.
> 

We indeed settled on the menu item solution: see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119428#c15

> A further improvement would be to remember wrapping per filetype: 
> changing the wrapping mode for a file of known type would remember it 
> for (a) that file, (b) all new files of that type from then on, and (c) 
> all files of types that had not yet had a wrapping mode set. Changing 
> the filetype with "View" > "Highlight" (which might need to be renamed, 
> and would definitely need to be above "View" > "Line Wrapping") would 
> change the wrapping to the default for that filetype, unless the 
> wrapping had been changed previously for that individual file.
> 
> The same approach could be applied to get rid of many things from the 
> Preferences window.
> 

Yep, we will use it for line numbers etc.


ciao
	Paolo