Last modified: 2013-02-11 18:08:35 UTC
When editing with the Vector skin and opening the "special characters" box from the top menu, you get a pretty wide selection list (at the left in an ltr environment) and a pretty large edit pane. Specially with IPA symbols, the character box needs scrolling so as to find the symbols you need. Because you usually enter a series of them, you srcoll a lot, while both the selection list and the edit pane are of no or little interest, as long as you see what you are just putting into the edit pane. Thus I suggest to allow users to drag the left (in ltr) edge of the character box, which is the right (in ltr) edge of the selection list horizontally, until either the character box, or the slection list, is only one character wide. Likewise, I suggest to allow users to drag the lower edge of the combo box comprising the selection list and the character box vertically, until either the edit pane or the combo box has been shrunk to one line high. Also worth thinking over would be, imho, to automatically close the selection list, once a selection has been made. This requires a click more, each time when you have to enter another character or symbol of another script, but I believe these occasions are rare. Another option would be to automatically shrink the selection list to its minimum, when the character box is opened, in addition to each type of dragging, asked for above. Thank you.
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
This is now the "WikiEditor" extension and has nothing to do with Vector in particular.