Bug#407232: gucharmap: please store the last script used

[Adam Borowski]

Package: gucharmap
Version: 1:1.6.0-1
Severity: wishlist

At the moment, gucharmap always picks Arabic on start.  The glyphs may be
pretty and so on, but well, what do they mean?  Hardly any person knows more
than 1-3 scripts, so users are nearly certain to look only for characters in
scripts they know, or at most, common pictograms.

What about storing the last script used, and starting gucharmap with it? 
Or, at the very least, with Latin as it's what about anyone capable of using
a computer knows?

It's somewhat tedious to have to select the script you want every single
time gucharmap is started.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gucharmap depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.6-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.16.0-2     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.14.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.8.20-4     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtk2.0-bin               2.8.20-4     The programs for the GTK+ graphica
ii  libgucharmap4               1:1.6.0-1    Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.14.8-5     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-12    A free electronic cataloging syste

gucharmap recommends no packages.

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