Re: Mr. D strikes again

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 01:09 +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Reinout van Schouwen <reinout@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > This is good stuff, as far as I'm concerned. One suggestion, though:
> > make it easy to get to the create/edit styles window[1], possibly with
> > a toolbar button next to the styles dropdown.
>
> That's a sore issue but I've not yet been able to come up with a
> proposal which is also visually appealing. Feel free to suggest
> something specific. In the meantime
> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/tmp/abiword-toolbar-03.png is a more
> consequent variation of the previous toolbar proposal with almost all
> buttons on the "format" menu providing menus (not quite sure about
> that, maybe takes time getting used to it).
>

All those little arrows got me thinking. Is it possible to have a drop
down list of toolbars? ie Click on the arrows and a transient toolbar
appears? I'm not sure I like that, just wondering though.

I don't want to discourage this work but I must say I like the table
toolbar and if anything I would like more table functions to implemented
on it.

> > [1] that window badly needs a redesign too, but that's another issue.
>
> I'm pondering that for some time but didn't have a satisfying idea so
> far. Time permitting (and noone speaking up against) I'll probably
> implement something along the lines of
> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/tmp/abiword-styles-03.png one day
> (the list on the left will be filled with property sections like
> "paragraph", "language", ...).
>

I really much prefer that to what we have now.

Great work. Feel free to implement.

Cheers

Martin

> - Rob
Received on Tue Sep 12 01:46:49 2006