Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#9653 closed enhancement (fixed)
Remove StyledEdit's character encoding display
Reported by: | axeld | Owned by: | siarzhuk |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
Component: | Applications/StyledEdit | Version: | R1/alpha4.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Platform: | All |
Description
Besides the strange popup-lookalike triangle next to it, there is really no point for putting that kind of info there.
Haiku uses UTF-8 by default, and you only really care about the encoding if something is wrong. Looking into the menu is not too much to ask in this case.
Change History (3)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 12 years ago
Owner: | changed from | to
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Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
Replying to axeld:
I think siarzhuk added this as part of a GCI, maybe he has a good argument for letting it in there? Or can explain what that triangle is about, at least.
This cell is about the opened file encoding. Unfortunately in russian-speaking countries we still have to deal with lot of files in cp1251, koi8-r and cp866 encoding. So we really need to have this information in sight and have possibility to switch the encoding on the fly - just to select correct encoding in case auto-detection had wrong assumption during opening the file.
From the other side, you are right, for most cases this info is superfluous - so this cell should be shown only in case non-UTF-8 encoding.
The "triangle" - is just an attempt to mark that there popup menu in this field. The menu idea comes from some of our users - just an attempt to simplify the encoding change but is, obviously, not perfect. ;-) IMO the shortcuts pair for iteration through list of encoding do the work more seamlessly. But the problem is to select good shortcuts for this.
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
Behavior of encoding statusview cell improved in hrev45500. Default UTF-8 one is not shown anymore, popup encodings menu is removed, pair of shortcuts (Cmd-Opt-PgUp/PgDn) for quick iteration through the list was added. I hope it helps.
I think siarzhuk added this as part of a GCI, maybe he has a good argument for letting it in there? Or can explain what that triangle is about, at least.