Patent ID: 7676757

Claim:
A method, in a data processing system, of permitting a Graphical User Interface (GUI) display to be customized by a user, said method comprising: displaying, via a display device of the data processing system, a selection element in a menu of the GUI, said selection element having at least one customizable language attribute, wherein the selection element is one of a plurality of selection elements in the GUI; in response to a user selecting the selection element via an user input mechanism associated with the data processing system, displaying a language preferences menu comprising a list of selectable languages for the selection element via the display device; and in response to a user selecting, via the user input mechanism, a language preference from the list of selectable languages, modifying the at least one customizable language attribute of said selected selection element using the selected language preference, wherein the selection of the language preference for the selected selection element does not affect customizable language attributes of other selection elements in the plurality of selection elements of the GUI, and wherein at least one other selection element in the plurality of selection elements in the GUI utilizes a different customizable language attribute from that of the selected selection element.