| Subject: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/9/2008 8:39:28 AM |
| From: "Michael Moser" [Email Address Protection] |
I am regularly writing in two different languages (English and German). Again and again it happens be me, that I start writing and only when the input panel recognizes complete garbage I realize that I again forgot to select the proper language first. Dear MS-developers, let me tell you: This is NOT how people think! When I write something down I want to capture a thought. Thoughts are precious (after all: that's why we want to capture them and what we are paid for) but, alas, thoughts are also volatile and so I want to dump that thought or that idea as long as I have it fresh in mind and I have to concentrate on the content while doing so! I do NOT want to be interrupted BEFORE I write something down! I am NOT a computer! I do NOT have the mental capacity to push my ideas onto a "stack" and then first deal with something else and later "pop" that idea from the stack again and continue from where I left off. If I try that (or have to try that because my machine forces me), then my ideas are very often gone by the time when I try to pop them off that mental stack! Only AFTER I wrote down my thought I accept to be bothered by questions re. spelling and what language that last scribble was in. So, it should be possible to change the input language AFTER the writing and have the SW re-recognize my ink again under the new assumption, i.e. using a different dictionary. That's how the input panel should work! Regards, Michael |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/9/2008 12:44:42 PM |
| From: "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" [Email Address Protection] |
>> Dear MS-developers << Unfortunately, ms personnel rarely visit the microsoft forums, so, know that feedback posted here is unlikely to make it to anyone within their walls. Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/9/2008 8:31:38 PM |
| From: "Rainald Taesler" [Email Address Protection] |
Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] schrieb: >>> Dear MS-developers << > > Unfortunately, ms personnel rarely visit the microsoft forums, so, > know that feedback posted here is unlikely to make it to anyone > within their walls. And what woild *You* suggest to get through and/or over the said walls? Rainald |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/10/2008 11:29:53 AM |
| From: "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" [Email Address Protection] |
>> ...what woild *You* suggest to get through and/or over the said walls? << I've been a microsoft mvp for another (windows mobile) arena for five years, and, despite that connection, have found _no_ reliable way to get feedback even acknowledged much less listened to. The idea of getting something acted on is the stuff of fantasy. I'm here because it's the users who often have solutions and alternative workarounds to user issues which will never be addressed at the source. imho, the main result from trying to get ms act on a user need will be ulcers... and they are not worth it ;-) Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/13/2008 3:59:19 PM |
| From: "Rainald Taesler" [Email Address Protection] |
Thanks for your kind reply, Beverly! On re-read my posting seem rather rude to me and as it was not meant in this way, I would have deleted it if this would be possible ... "Beverly Howard wrote: >>> I'm really wondering where all of the good old folks who used to > frequent this forum may have gone ... << > > Guess I ran them off... although I do qualify as "old" ;-) LOL > imho, it's pretty discouraging that several of the primary needs posted > here can't be addressed by users and ms remains unresponsive to user needs. Only too true and too sad ... Rainald |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/13/2008 7:50:41 PM |
| From: "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" [Email Address Protection] |
>> my posting seem rather << Didn't take it that way... in fact had been thinking the same thing before your post. Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 6/30/2008 3:17:38 AM |
| From: "S. Niemeyer" [Email Address Protection] |
go and participate in MS Beta programs to directly influence upcoming products. Goto connect.microsoft.com and register. You'll read it in the news when a new Windows beta will start and new beta testers will be welcomed. Stefen "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:uzw0hfyyIHA.5716@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> ...what woild *You* suggest to get through and/or over the said > walls? << > > I've been a microsoft mvp for another (windows mobile) arena for five > years, and, despite that connection, have found _no_ reliable way to get > feedback even acknowledged much less listened to. The idea of getting > something acted on is the stuff of fantasy. > > I'm here because it's the users who often have solutions and alternative > workarounds to user issues which will never be addressed at the source. > > imho, the main result from trying to get ms act on a user need will be > ulcers... and they are not worth it ;-) > > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] > > > > |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 7/2/2008 5:01:04 AM |
| From: "S. Niemeyer" [Email Address Protection] |
Hi Beverly, from my personal experience I can say yes, there is a chance to make their minds change, even for design changes. Of course I did and do not expect all my ideas to be realized. It depends on the idea itself, time, ressources, budget, support from other testers etc. I can't speak for Windows Mobile Betas, never heard of those, but I guess they are currently very open to ideas regarding an improved touch interface ;) Stefen "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ut4yENs2IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > >> go and participate in MS Beta programs << > > unfortunately, my willingness to expect ms to respond positively to > current user input beyond lip service has been forged with ms experience > dating back to the introduction of msdos (things were better then) along > with advancing age and lowered expectations. > > The bulk of my beta participation has been in windows mobile, and while I > can't comment on ms beta in general, it has been evident, where I have > participated, that the feature sets are already set in concrete long > before beta testing begins and all such requests from all participants > have essentially been "black holed" by the ms development teams. > > ms is a 500 million ton gorilla which has pushed lead time units into > decades... the op's request represents such a tiny fraction of their > perceived market that (imho) the best hope of having his need addressed is > to look for a third party product which would facilitate the user in > knowing what the current language status is... > > ...for example, a language setting utility which would set different > desktop wallpapers when each language is selected. > > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] > |
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| Subject: Re: Feature Request: Ability to change language AFTER writing! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 7/2/2008 5:21:22 PM |
| From: "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" [Email Address Protection] |
>> but I guess they are currently very open to ideas regarding an improved touch interface ;) << <grin> ...wish that were so ;-) Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] |
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