Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:09:19 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OPTIONS Message-ID: <4CA8726F.6030105@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTing1xAs751W1dJUDuxpX1aZ7M5Bosf66Y0hM=Kw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C93AA31.5080202@DataIX.net> <AANLkTik%2B1rvY4ZYgzHRjaX8PBfD1UqNCNeadHqg3KBfo@mail.gmail.com> <20100918223933.GB85995@dragon.NUXI.org> <AANLkTi=vPKpaPL9L=pQN9EdWdEN3sf1pos6uGtJU7ybV@mail.gmail.com> <20101002002605.GA8018@dragon.NUXI.org> <AANLkTinkasFFQ8ssbTSdbYUS%2BJ-tYMc1U3w9rkUCk9Gd@mail.gmail.com> <4CA844E5.7060303@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTimLqUaZMyDs-mhc-cQbASU%2B_1XqRjd=2=N%2BVSsR@mail.gmail.com> <4CA85617.7060503@bsdforen.de> <AANLkTimi-yWAvWf9rJKfLXL9Dyynxcjkr4BzkudoqiZ=@mail.gmail.com> <4CA85D92.8070500@bsdforen.de> <AANLkTing1xAs751W1dJUDuxpX1aZ7M5Bosf66Y0hM=Kw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/10/2010 12:48, David DEMELIER wrote: > 2010/10/3 Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>: >> On 03/10/2010 12:29, David DEMELIER wrote: >>> 2010/10/3 Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>: >>>> On 03/10/2010 11:45, David DEMELIER wrote: >>>>> 2010/10/3 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>: >>>>> I don't want something complex, checkbox, textbox, radiobuttons is enough. >>>> >>>> Textbox is _very_ complex. Think of all the code you'd have to >>>> add to ports to check what was entered by the user. >>>> At the very least you have to verify that whatever was provided >>>> is valid. For the feature not to become annoying you'd have to >>>> be a lot more fuzzy and complex, though. >>>> >>> >>> What do you mean by valid? In the way that the user can't insert any >>> no alpha-numeric characters or an entry that is only valid to the >>> application ? >>> >> >> Text fields are arbitrary and you'd probably want to limit it to >> a specific purpose, like a list of languages. >> >> So is de_* an acceptable language? Do you delimit with space, pipe >> or semicolon? Do people really want to be bothered with learning >> the specific syntax of your ports text input fields? >> > > In the openoffice ports you have LOCALIZED_LANG knob, I needed to > check which kind of delimiters was needed and it's a space, so delimit > by space is enough. > I have set LOCALIZED_LANG wrongly before. An excellent example, why text input boxes are /very dangerous/. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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