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

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Jul 21, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 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.
> ...

If it is useful to sort items in alphabetical order at all, that should 
be true regardless of locale, so menu items should be sorted 
alphabetically for whichever locale you have chosen.

However, if you customize the menu order at all -- that is, you have 
chosen something you like better than alphabetical sorting -- that 
customization should not be obliterated when you change locale.

Therefore, I suggest there be a flag set to record whether you have 
customized the order of the menu (perhaps one such flag for each menu). 
If the flag is set, changing your locale should not reorder the items.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/