[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Word count dialog modeless

[Astron]

Hi everyone,

First of all: very nice feature indeed!

On 15 November 2011 19:15, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com> wrote:
>        :-) sounds reasonable. My only concern would be to make it discoverable
> and of course performance: would we take a per-keystroke hit there ? so
> perhaps having it easy-to-enable but disabled by default would make
> sense.

How large is the hit? Has anyone measured already?
Personally, I can't really perceive anything when comparing writing
with the Word Count window open v/ without it.


>> eg. Page 1/2 (354 words)
>> Would that be an acceptable UI change?
>
>        Sounds fine to me - but we have the ux-advise list for this sort of
> thing. I think Kendy is gunning to allow people to remove the status bar
> altogether ;-) but ... no doubt that is not to everyone's taste.

I tend to agree with Kendy here. We also already have a lot of things
in the status bar already, to the point where it looks cluttered on
smaller screens.


>> I think MS Word has something I this, but I no idea if it on by default
>> or some soft of option or dock.
>
>        Interesting question of course. Clearly docking the word-count window
> is an easy option wrt. adding new UI.

I like this as a solution much better, that's for two reasons:
* currently we don't use the space to sides of the pages at all
(except for the ruler and the scrollbar)
* more information can be presented in a much more coherent manner
than in a status bar
Would it be possible to add the word count as a "Tasks" sidebar
element (see Impress/Draw)? (This is possible in Writer, see the
recently released AccessODF extension [1] which also uses the tasks
sidebar. I think the interface is also XML based there, no idea if
that tells us anything about how easy relayouting is.)

Astron.


[1] sourceforge.net/p/accessodf