Re: Styles management dialog

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:20 +0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>Hi Rob,
>
>> It is both. I think MS Word does something similar in their style
>> dropdown toolbar. The benefit i see is that styles can be selected by
>> how they look and not only by their name (without clicking on them
>> first).
>>
>
>Yes, Word does this in the style combo and I find it very irritating
>because due to the increased height of pretty much all entries on that
>list, I have to scroll down awful lot every time I want to apply a
>style. So, I like the idea that the preview in your mockup is separate
>from the list.

That's definitely a concern. I think i also wouldn't like those big
preview images in the toolbar because it's used frequently and a pain to
scan visually given the different alignments etc.

It would probably help if the default way to select a style for editing
would not be to select it from a big list anyways, but rather open it
"directly".

Possible ways include:
- Context menu in the styles toolbar dropdown.
- "Edit" button in the Stylist.
- "Edit Style" or "Properties" menu item in the editing popup menu.

The preview-dropdown as proposed in the mockups could stay as an
unobstrusive fallback for navigating styles. Typeahead support would
definitely be nice for people who know what they're looking for.

Best,
- Rob
Received on Mon Feb 14 09:11:31 2005