https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433297
Bug ID: 433297
Summary: Locale-aware alphabetic index/category in kickoff for
non-English applications
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: All
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: wzc782970...@gmail.com
CC: mikel5...@gmail.com, plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Currently, the kickoff uses the first character in the application entry name
to do the alphabetic indexing [1], makes non-English application also use its
first character as an index/category. For CJK or other non-English users that
have a lot of applications with non-English names, it'll be less useful and
confused.
[1]
https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/blob/a5c7df39460eff7454f992a2307753bfb1eb095f/applets/kicker/plugin/rootmodel.cpp#L374-L390
For example, in a Chinese locale environment, there are some applications
names:
* System Settings // just showcase what will happen if there are also English
application
* 音乐播放器 // Audio player in English, Yinyue bofangqi in pinyin.
* 视频播放器 // Video player in English, Shipin bofangqi in pinyin
* 游戏中心 // Game center in English, Youxi zhongxin in pinyin
* 手机助手 // Phone manager in English, Shouji zhushou in pinyin
There will be five indexes/categories in the current implementation, each index
contains only one entry, like:
S --------
* System Settings
视 --------
* 视频播放器
手 --------
* 手机助手
音 --------
* 音乐播放器
游 --------
* 游戏中心
If we could do locale-aware alphabetic indexing, it could look like this, with
two indexes/categories:
S --------
* System Settings
* 视频播放器
* 手机助手
Y --------
* 音乐播放器
* 游戏中心
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
In ICU, there is an AlphabeticIndex API [2] that can be used to create
locale-aware alphabetic indexes. I didn't find the exact same alternative in
Qt, not sure if there is in KDE.
[2]: http://site.icu-project.org/design/alphabetic-index
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