Subject: Re: Bug 1587 mislabelled dialogue - commit
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 09:28:59 CDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Pritchett" <mpritchett@attglobal.net>
To: <mpritchett@attglobal.net>
Cc: "AbiWord-dev" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Bug 1587 mislabelled dialogue - commit
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> I fess up. I did this. I was making changes to get the Font Dialog to
> work and cleaning code. Obviously not well enough.
>
> Windows localization take care of a Standard Dialogs, but the additional
> features in AbiWorld (like Overline) would be missed. I was attempting to
> make the Dialog match on all platforms where possible instead of using the
> default Windows localization. I could go either way in this case. At the
> moment, I'll continue with AbiWord localization. If there is a strong
> preference, I can be converted.
I prefer AbiWord localization instead of using the native dialog. One reason
it that there doesn't exist a localized version of Windows for my locale
('nn-NO'). But of course the look and feel of the dialog should closely match
the native dialog (for each platform).
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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