691548 - [10.6 +] Add Transformations to the context menu for text areas

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

In a text area, I select some text. I miss the Transformations to change the selection's case — for instance, to transform it into small case.

See screen photo of Safari, which has the Transformations :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=545010

The Transformations are OS-wide.

Please put the Transformations in Camino.

Thanks.

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This isn't gonna happen in a version of Gecko that Camino can use unless you want to code it yourself. Note that Gecko support would be required here, and this is really a dupe of bug 670457, but it's probably going to end up being a WONTFIX for Camino due to not ever being landed on Gecko 1.9.2.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

There's no reason to track this separately; either Gecko will implement it and miraculously land it on 1.9.2, or not, and whether we have it depends entirely on that.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I'm confused here; are Transformations OS routines that apps call, or just a built-in feature of NSText* and their subclasses?

Given that we control our own context menus for text areas (somewhere in BWC's |contextMenu| I believe), if it's the former, it would be possible (though still not probable) for us to implement this ourselves in Camino.

If, on the other hand, every app has to write the code for the transformation logic itself or use NSText* classes, then that wouldn't be something we'd do (and, even if Gecko added it and miraculously landed it on 1.9.2, we still would have to hook it up ourselves, since, again, Gecko doesn't provide the actual CM UI in Camino).

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

* Those are available on 10.6 as well.
* Transformations (& Substitutions, e.g 'automatically' offer to change (c) to ©, smart quotes, etc) are available from the 'Edit' menu and the context menu in editors - similar to all the spellcheck & grammar functions that e.g. Safari & TextEdit offer.
* While checking this, I noticed that G. Chrome doesn't offer any of those 2 either, at least on 10.6

(reopening for further discussion)