[Libreoffice-ux-advise] style selector / abandonware ...
Christoph Noack
christoph at dogmatux.com
Tue Jun 14 11:13:17 PDT 2011
Hi Michael,
cool, looks like a _very_ promising start :-)
Am Dienstag, den 14.06.2011, 11:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Meeks:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have to task switch for a week or so now, so I just dumped my latest
> (hackish) re-hash of the style preview / selection pane I was working on
> here (click the navigator paint-can):
>
> http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-06-14-style-preview.diff
>
> It looks like this:
>
> http://people.gnome.org/~michael/images/2011-06-14-style-preview.png
Okay, so at the moment it is "just" a matrix like preview in a separate
window. Each of the previews seems to render the name of the style in
100% size, centered. Correct?
> I had a few questions:
>
> a) ux guys - would you like a side-bar a bit like this ?
> could we make that a 'mode' of the style navigator ?
> + what interaction modes would work well here:
> mouse-over style preview ?
Some QuickThoughts (tm):
* Toolbar Drop-Down for Paragraph Styles (m x n matrix instead of
a plain list)
* Paragraph Styles in the Stylist (preview for each list entry,
for all modes but hierarchical view)
* Character Styles in the Stylist (preview for each list entry,
for all modes but hierarchical view)
Of course, the devil is in the details - we want to keep this list
manageable (size, number of items), the styles (easily) editable, the
stuff accessible (keyboard nav etc.).
So, these thoughts are a start, I think.
> + context specific style/palette adaption ?
Mmh, what do you have in mind - we already have some (more or less
working) context specific context adaptations in the Stylist.
>
> b) any more thoughts on that ?
>
> c) since this is essentially a stolen (re-factored) 'preview'
> widget from the existing 'style' dialog - I wondered ...
> are there other easy-to-steal preview widgets that we can
> re-use to make applying these things easier ?
> [ perhaps border selectors ? ].
Mmh, don't know whether this fits technically (we'll need that anyway,
soon *g*), but how about the new toolbar drop-down selectors in Impress.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnfZlYU0SNc (interesting part starts
exactly at minute one).
Furthermore, the slide sorter preview, or the master slide preview might
be other candidates.
> d) Do we have an enterprising hacker wanting to play with
> creating a more attractive navigator / style pane here?
> + it is slightly complicated due to the shared
> nature of sfx's style code between all components
>
> Thoughts ?
Hackers? :-)
Cheers,
Christoph
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