[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Header and Footers separators design

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Christoph,

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 23:58 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> > The separator mark is as shown in the attached picture because... but as
> > I'm a bad designer, I'ld like you to have a look at it and tell me how
> > it should look like.
> 
> I'd like to ask a few questions:
>       * Is the position of the header/footer "markup line" always the
>         page margin? If yes, then the dashed markup line would interfere
>         (a bit) with the margin.

Yes, it always in the margin... In a previous implementation I had, the
markup was moving when scrolling horizontally. That may be an
interesting thing to add again.

>       * What color is used for the markup? Is it something borrowed by
>         the operating system, or is it somehow hard-coded?

The colors are simply hard-coded ones. I used the "Blue 1" and "Blue 4"
colors from the branding marketing page.

>       * Is this just a "passive" element or is there any "active" stuff
>         like another context-menu or actions on clicking the markup.
>         (Rationale for that question: In MSO a dedicated header/footer
>         ribbon element gets added. In our case, we might help the user
>         to find out how to format the header/footer easily - e.g. by
>         calling the dedicated page formatting dialog).

ATM it's purely a passive element... but we may enhance it if you have
some ideas of what to do with it ;)

> Final question, who is the source for adding this markup? I'm asking the
> question because MSO started to remove any margin indicators, so they
> need this indicator to make sure people know that they are working in
> the headers/footers section. In our case, we already have such
> indicators (of course, this does not imply these indicators are helpful
> at all ;-)

I implemented it because of a user request.

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