Hi Michael,<div>(Since this is purely UI talk, I'm only answering on the UX advise mailing list)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/8 Michael Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a>></span><br>
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On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:<br>
> Hehe. Take a look at the amazing mock-up and ideas that Mirek has been<br>
> working on for a while now:<br>
> <a href="http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/" target="_blank">http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/</a><br>
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</div> They look nice :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks. :) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> (No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet, but there's some<br>
> pretty cool stuff there.)<br>
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</div> So - one thing that I (personally) rather dislike is this "bold /<br>
italic / underline" meme that still lurks heavily in new UI designs.<br>
IMHO these need to be firmly held underwater until they expire ;-) Good<br>
mockups around making styles more visible and manageable, creating (and<br>
customizing) new styles [ which can indeed include the<br>
bold/italic/underline elements ;-] much appreciated for that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I beg to differ here: having up-front "Bold", "Italic", and "Underline" buttons for quick formatting is always going to be better than forcing the user to go through a drop-down menu for these items. If the user later wishes to color all bolded items in the document, he can use the search tool for that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I did hide the font and size drop downs under the overflow menu, though, since they are almost always use for whole paragraphs -- paragraph styles are more appropriate here.</div><div><br></div><div>I also put in two distinct style drop downs -- one for paragraph styles, one for character styles, to differentiate between what the styles apply to and so that a person using styles frequently doesn't have to continually switch between "character" and "paragraph" tabs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In Citrus UI, I <a href="http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/prominent-styles/">used colors</a> to make style drop downs more prominent, but this didn't seem appropriate for Android's Holo theme.</div>
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Otherwise, some good ideas there. Do we have excitable people wanting<br>
to do UI work in Java - that we can plug together with the core in due<br>
course ? it'd be great to parallelise that work.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Michael.<br>
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<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a> <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot<br>
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