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UI Suggestion: clean up Language menu

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DisgruntledGoat
2008-09-17
2012-11-13

  • DisgruntledGoat

    DisgruntledGoat - 2008-09-17

    The "Language" menu is extremely long, it stretches from the top to the bottom of the screen, and you need to scroll to find what you need. It also means it's more difficult to open the "Settings" menu if you accidentally clicked "Language".

    I suggest grouping languages to shrink this list. KATE has some good grouping, it splits them by syntax type, eg Markup/Scripts/Sources

    Notepad++ could follow this, or group them into platform type, eg Programming/Web etc

    Feel free to suggest some groups!

     

    • Alex

      Alex - 2008-10-22

      I suggest using a more appropriate control to represent a large list of options: The Combo box (with CBS_DROPDOWNLIST).

      A menu is not the appropriate place to put an ever-growing list of items.

       

    • Bob Uncle

      Bob Uncle - 2008-09-17

      Or, in your preferences just go to the Language Menu tab and move items to the disabled list. I suggest removing all the languages that you never use to clean things up. It worked for me so that I have less than 20 showing ... and I really only use three of them often.

      2C

       

    • DisgruntledGoat

      DisgruntledGoat - 2008-10-21

      I didn't know that option existed. Now that I know it does, it begs the suggestion of removing all the uncommon languages from that menu by default.

      I mean, does anyone really use Assembly language any more? Or smalltalk or kixtart? I had to look those latter two up to see what they were.

      SUGGESTION:
      * The Language menu should be cleaned out, leaving the most common languages (there are probably about 20 well-known ones).
      * An entry should be added at the bottom saying "More languages..." that takes you to the Language tab in preferences.