More questions about statusbar menu

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 01/09/2022 à 18:38, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, dem 01.09.2022 um 18:26 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc
> Lasgouttes:
>> A question concerning this menu: do we really have to keep the "Show"
>> prefix for the different entries? In French, it becomes a bit long.
>>
>> In the View menu, there is no Show menu for the various panels.
>>
>> Another question: should we really display the three statistics by
>> default, or could we skip characters without blanks like LibreOffice
>> does.
>>
>> Finally, "Character Count (Incl. Blanks)" can be simplified to
>> "Character Count" IMO.
> 
> Do as you see fit.

I did, but I have more questions now.

1/ the word/char checkboxes, would "Count Words" be clearer than "Word 
Count" ? (I think about themes where checkbox is not visible when off)

2/ we have to settle on wording:
    statusbar:         Characters (No Blanks)
    statusbar menu:    Character Count (Without Blanks)
    statistics dialog: %1$d characters (excluding blanks)

    So, native English speakers, what is the right way to convey that we 
do not count blanks?

3/ The contextual menu is a weird merge of what LibreOffice and MS 
Office do:
   * LO: each element has its menu, the zoom menu has example values to 
set (fit width, fit page, 50%, 75%, etc.), no way to tell which 
statistics should be there
   * MSO: only one menu with checkboxes to indicate which elements 
should be shown, no way to tell which statistics should be there, no way 
to set zoom from menu
   * LyX one menu that does both selection of elements and zooming, zoom 
in/out and reset to default (main use IMO is to learn shortcuts), 
weird-looking precomputed zoom values

I understand that splitting the menu would make zoom menu unavailable 
when both count and slider are off; some solution would be needed if 
splitting the menus. OTOH I am not sure that the zoom menu is useful, 
except maybe for the reset to default, which is not available via a 
mouse click. In this respect, I like the Firefox approach, where 
clicking on the zoom indicator resets zoom to default.

So as you can see, lots of small questions.

JMarc