[Usability] RFE regarding Fixing the sorting order for gnome-menu

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan mukhopadhyay gmail com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi,

I had filed a RFE http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458330
related to the sorting of items in the GNOME menu. In short, here's what
I wrote:

The default sorting of entries in the gnome-menu for en_US (and I guess for
Latin languages) is alphabetical. However, in the Indic locales the sorting
does not happen alphabetically in a proper fashion. One approach of solving
this issue would be to fix the position for the entries so that they
appear in
constant order across the locale. For example if Accessories, Graphics,
Internet were tagged 1,2,3 (I admit that there might be more entries in
between, the example was from how my menu appears) then irrespective of the
locale, the translated strings would assume the same position. This is
an RFE
and I would really like to understand what would be the issues in
implementing
this. Since Indic sorting is taking quite a while to get fixed, this
might turn
out to be a working solution.

Does this impact usability ?

:Sankarshan

ps: I am not subscribed to this list, could you keep me in cc: when
replying ?

- --

You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFGoKVPXQZpNTcrCzMRAkX4AKCnvLWI9+lQ7FVoLyHk4mtM6XzPogCfXzHR
Q2OJwEMs1ijHv/3QqTQ2Muo=
=izD9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----