Currently, the word counter at Writer’s status bar wastes space in a hugely unnatural wording: Words (characters): n (n) Words (characters): n (n) Selected: n (n) LibreOffice should not speak like a robot. Transform this into: n words, n characters n words, n characters (sel.: n, n) --- (This bug is already fixed in the Spanish locale, see https://translations.documentfoundation.org/es/libo_ui/sw/source/ui/app.po/translate/#unit=40233990.)
I'll have a look at this, sounds like a good change.
Maybe it's better to remove the "Selected" part. This doesn't look good: 120 Words, 607 Characters (Selected: 5, 34) And this would be way too long: 120 Words, 607 Characters (Selected: 5 Words, 34 Characters)
Also consider the flickering when you select something. The footer will have to be repositioned.
(In reply to comment #2) > Maybe it's better to remove the "Selected" part. No, that would be a regression (why did we add it in the first place). Instead, when there is a selection, remove the whole document’s stats and only show selection stats. This is like what Office 2013 does, but better. So it would be: n words, n characters (Normal) n words, n characters selected (Selection)
Thanks Adolfo, that's a good suggestion. I've updated the patch accordingly: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/6479
Why not do it like Office: Words: 20, Characters: 123 (Normal} Words: 3/20, Characters: 34/123 (Selection) That should be intuitive and easy to understand. Giving the number before the meaning (20 words) is not as easy to understand as vice versa (words: 20). And it's the shortest variant :)
(In reply to comment #6) > That should be intuitive and easy to understand. Giving the number before > the meaning (20 words) is not as easy to understand as vice versa (words: > 20). Not as easy to understand? In which language? :-) That does not sound natural, the point of opening this bug was to change the over-bracketed and over-punctuated string into something more grammatically correct. (Also, words should all be lowercase, you don’t write a word in uppercase after a comma, and Title Case doesn’t fit here.)
I still prefer the suggestion from Adolfo. It's easier to read and understand.
Why don't you write: "37 of 200 words, 123 of 560 characters selected." You get all informations in one sentence
@k-j: It's too long for the Statusbar.
Adolfo's suggestion sounds best to me too: it's focused, short enough and doesn't look like a fraction. Only real con I can think of is that with that solution it is probably easier to create something ungrammatical in languages with multiple plural forms (like Russian). (I reckon the the translations for such languages are already ungrammatical in soem places, so it wouldn't be dramatically worse.)
So can we agree on Adolfo's suggestion? n words, n characters (Normal) n words, n characters selected (Selection) (Should it be Upper- or Lowercase?)
Use lowercase, please :-)
That's stupid. The word counter should display the numbers, and do that fast. It should not sit there wasting time and power to reevaluate plural rules on each update.
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=01af3e2efd4f7e0994340cb5b09c252323de63d9 fdo#70978 Improve Word Count display The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Looks lovely - can't back-port to 4.1 due to string / translation changes => marking fixed. Thanks so much Samuel / Adolfo & all for the nice polish ! =)