#2447 BLOC Trial-2: "Caps lock" in write activity.

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#2447: "Caps lock" in write activity.
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  Reporter:  jg                        |       Owner:  uwog   
      Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  blocker                   |   Milestone:  Trial-2
 Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |     Version:         
Resolution:                            |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0                         |  
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Comment (by Eben):

 I think we want to take this from a different angle.  Removing the
 capslock key and then replacing it with a more obscure shortcut is silly.
 I think we should assume that some activities will require an "uppercase"
 mode, but that can easily be accomplished in software.  If we create an
 icon in the system theme for this, activities can add a toggle button to
 their toolbar for toggling case.

 Two places we could define as a standard location for this toggle button
 are the Text toolbar, and the view toolbar.  The latter has a very
 interesting implication, since it relates to the whole view and not
 explicitly to the text being typed.  Perhaps it's not a modifier for the
 characters as they are input, but a global "uppercase" function that would
 instantly convert any document a child found on the web or got from a
 classmate, etc. to capital letters.  As characters were input, they would
 also appear capitalized, but they wouldn't actually be encoded as such
 within the document; The standard capitalization with/without shift would
 apply.

 This could even be useful in the web browser.  I've never seen anything
 like that done before, but it's probably possible with some clever upper()
 calls that skip any text within tags, inline javascript, etc.

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