[Bug 204768] Dolphin-Konqueror plugin to solve encoding problems marked as WONTFIX

[jorortega at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204768





--- Comment #6 from  <jorortega gmail com>  2009-12-11 22:49:52 ---
This tool is good for those that have data in non-UTF8 format in read/write
media.

This tool is pretty much useless for read only media (cd,dvd,tape,etc...). And
the use of a command line tool pretty much defeat the entire purpose of a GUI.

What is needed really is when KDE find a file with legacy encoding, simply
shows the garbage associated, and in a drop down menu in the header of
konqueror/dolphin or whatever KDE is using at the moment, the user choose a
locale, since the user knows where lives and/or the original language of the
file. Can be Japanese, Chinesse, German, etc. The thing is the user should
_not_ care about internal locales. We as users just need the damned thing can
be opened (Ironically, one of the open source "advantages" was to prevent some
"propietary format locking" and/or, prevent that your data were tied to a
specific software and cannot be opened in the future... how risible is this
considering the actual results). And the system should _NOT_ produce legacy
encoding. If you open a read only file, modify it, and save in another site,
KDE should save it in UTF8 equivalent transparently (One one knows the origin
of the legacy file, convert to UTF8 is trivial, the problem always is
determining the origin).

As an ex KDE user (and i moved the entire bussiness to gnome) i just recommend
go to Gnome. If you want a good distro with a nice and well known default
interface i recommend to all to use Linux Mint, and forget about all this kind
of problems.Probably in the closer future, LXDE can be usefull too.

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