#878 closed enhancement (wontfix)
global ALL CAPS rendering option
| Reported by: | walter | Owned by: | walter |
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| Priority: | High | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Sugar | Version: | Unspecified |
| Severity: | Major | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | eben, tomeu | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified |
| Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description
This is a design component that was never implemented: a global flag to cause all character rendering to appear in uppercase. The request for this feature was voiced on the Sur list today, but it has been requested numerous times in the past as well (See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2447).
Change History (8)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by garycmartin
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by walter
Yes. Just output. Ideally across the entire system, but at a minimum, Read, Write, and Browse.
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by walter
- Milestone changed from 0.86 to 0.88
I dropped the ball on this one. It is probably a small change, but would require extensive testing. Not going to happen for 0.86
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by walter
- Milestone changed from 0.88 to 0.90
Alas, it is not going to happen in 0.88 either...
comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by walter
- Priority changed from Unspecified by Maintainer to High
comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by dnarvaez
- Milestone changed from 0.90 to 1.0
Is this something deployments still desire?
comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by walter
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
OLPC AU has a better solution: a keyboard and font designed to map to what kids learn in school. Not sure we can scale that solution, but mapping to upper case seems a less than optimal work-around.
Just to confirm, this should be for the _output_ display of text, and not forcing input to uppercase? All output should be displayed in uppercase when this option is set (needs to be aware of locale fonts/accents and characters).