[Libreoffice-ux-advise] drawing toolbar interactions

[Astron]

Hi,

> I agree that this would be helpfull for Draw, as drawing is the most obvious
> activity there. Like astaron said, most drawing applications will keep the
> tool active after one action.

Note that I didn't say that. I think Federico mentioned something
along these lines in his bug, but he probably didn't make a complete
competitive analysis either.


> But: the drawing toolbar is used in other modules as well. I'm not sure,
> if the implementation is different for modules, but at least for impress
> it would be the same.

I think there are two implementations: one for Writer and Calc, and
one for Draw/Impress. Correct me if I'm wrong. This bug for instance
was fixed in Impress/Draw but not in Writer:
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3545#c42


> What is really confusing is that it is not obvious, if a tool is "sticky"
> or not.

See the Catia example – but I'm not sure that's a good solution since
it is somehow unnatural to double click toolbar icons. (Sorry, I can't
present links to any HIGs or such right now.)


> E.g. Double click on rectangle will make the rectangle shape
> in standard shapes sticky. But as this is hidden in a floating toolbar,
> user has no info about this status.

The current behaviour looks like someone forgot to remove the leftmost
buttons (line, line/arrow, rectangle, ellipse) when reworking them as
aliases for the Lines and Arrows and Basic Shapes tools. I am pretty
sure that in older versions of Ooo the line, line with arrow,
rectangle and ellipse buttons could be depressed.

The buttons in Writer and Calc suffer from a similar bug: they work,
but none shows can be depressed. (I am using 3.4.1, so if you've
already fixed that I don't know.)

Astron.