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Arlen Cuss started following the idea "Toggle making chores invisible" in Pivotal Labs.

Arlen Cuss replied on June 16, 2009 00:23 to the problem "Bugs should be caterpillars" in Pivotal Labs:

I'd definitely like to see this delivered. I feel the UI should match my internal image of the code being released from its buggy cocoon.

Arlen Cuss started following the problem "Bugs should be caterpillars" in Pivotal Labs.

Arlen Cuss gave praise in Pivotal Labs on June 05, 2009 05:48:

Great software. :-)

I'm impressed by Pivotal Tracker; seeing this all in the browser is wonderful, and the experience is top notch.

Arlen Cuss replied on June 05, 2009 05:44 to the problem "remove member doesn't work?" in Pivotal Labs:

Initials are stored alongside the user's account (which has now been created for them), so specifying it for the same user when you re-add them is actually a no-op. They can change it in "My Profile" when they finish setting up their account.

You (as a manager) entering initials at that stage is really as a convenience so that they have initials already once they accept.

Arlen Cuss marked one of Milen Dzhumerov's replies in The Cosmic Machine as useful. Milen Dzhumerov replied to the idea "Facebook full integration (notifications, requests and more)".

A comment on the problem "Foreign-language (Japanese, Chinese) text input unworkable" in The Cosmic Machine:

Sure. Have a foreign language such as Japanese (Hiragana input) installed. Have your cursor ready to enter text in EventBox's input, enter some text in English, then choose the foreign-language input method.

Try typing 'sushi'; すし appears. Since we don't want to convert these to kanji, now press Return. Assuming you've entered some English text before, that will now be immediately sent, and the 'sushi' text never made it to the textbox. If you haven't entered any, since the すし text hasn't yet finished conversion, the textbox sees no content and you'll hear an audio beep, as it won't send a blank message.

If it's working, though, hopefully すし will no longer be underlined, and you can keep entering text (or press Return to actually send the message).

Sorry about the late reply, I was out of the country! – Arlen Cuss, on March 02, 2009 12:25

A comment on the problem "Foreign-language (Japanese, Chinese) text input unworkable" in The Cosmic Machine:

That would be a workable workaround, but it only sidesteps the original issue.

The Return keypress shouldn't be being picked up yet at this stage - for instance, if I enter Japanese text in Safari's URL bar, pressing Return to confirm character conversions won't start loading the URL yet - I wouldn'tve thought that the textbox widget would even 'hear' the event, since it's all taking place in the input method. There's something about the way which the key is being listened for which isn't quite right. – Arlen Cuss, on February 16, 2009 02:19

Arlen Cuss reported a problem in The Cosmic Machine on February 14, 2009 09:32:

Foreign-language (Japanese, Chinese) text input unworkable

Entering text for some foreign languages (e.g. Japanese, Chinese) is problematic; pressing Return confirms the text conversion you've made, so you can continue to type a new word, but in EventBox it submits the message right away as well!

You have to type the text elsewhere, then copy it in - but this is annoying; I might as well go right to Twitter's website! (which I do, at the moment) It appears EventBox might be listening for the Return keypress specifically.

Arlen Cuss started following the idea "Please change the main app icon" in The Cosmic Machine.

Arlen started following the problem "Nokia N73 joystick broken" in Nokia.