Revision as of 11:17, 6 August 2007

Language Selection Statusbar Control

This is a Google Summer Of Code project which will provide the OpenOffice.org community the language selection status bar control. It's planned that the feature will be part of OpenOffice.org 2.3.

Motivation

Currently OpenOffice.org doesn't provide an easy way to change the language of a word, paragraph or text selection within the Writer application. The user has to use the menu and a multi-tab dialog to choose the appropriate language. A status bar control which provides this function would greatly enhance usability for people who have to work with multiple language documents.

Specification

We have a final specification for this feature from the User Experience team. You can find the final specification here. For the Google Summer Of Code project only a subset will be implemented (status bar control only).

Mockups

Some mockups from the specification can be seen below to have a better understanding about the feature.

Test Documents

Some test documents for the status bar control and/or language guessing. In the larger one the language is usually set wrong in order to test language guessing though. To test language guessing just right click on a wrong word and see the entry for the paragraph language.

• LGsampletexts.odt
• Samples_All_Languages.odt

Project plan