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

[Christoph Noack]

Hi Matt, Kevin, Michael, Astron ... all!

First and foremost, Matt, thank you for the extremely helpful patch ...
or (speaking as a non-developer), for the great improvement. Awesome!

I finally had some time to test it and I'd like to point out three
(mostly tiny) things...

First, since the dialog is now non-modal, the "OK" button does not have
the desired meaning anymore. "Close" is more appropriate in this case -
could you please update that?

Second, the menu item "Word Count" is now a toggle for the dialog -
that's fine. But in this case we need a "checkbox" in front of the menu
item (true = dialog is enabled, false = dialog is not disabled).

Next, I played a bit and run into an issue when working with the Writer
Comments. Steps to reproduce:
     1. Prepare a document with text, and comments - set the cursor into
        the text
     2. Open the word count dialog -> the word count is correctly
        displayed
     3. Click into any note -> the word count dialog disappears
     4. Press ESC to exit the note

Expected result: The word count dialog appears and shows the correct
values. The cursor is back in the document (to continue typing). (Mmh,
is it possible to show the dialog also when editing the comments?)

Current result: The word count dialog appears, but shows no numbers. The
cursor is not in the document. (To me, it seems the Word Count dialog
gets the focus instead of the document).

Can you reproduce that? Shall I create an issue for that?


Matt, I hope you find that information somehow helpful. It would be cool
if some things could be implemented ... thank you again!

Cheers,
Christoph

Am Mittwoch, den 16.11.2011, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Kevin Hunter:
> At 12:51pm -0500 Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Astron wrote:
> > On 15 November 2011 19:15, Michael Meeks 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.
> 
> It seems to me to be an issue of how one implements the word count 
> statistics collection.  Are the word count statistics constantly kept 
> up-to-date via a incrementers/decrementers per key-stroke?  Or are they 
> only collected upon request?
> 
>  From a brief and unscientific test of copying 10MiB of copy and paste 
> text into a Writer document, waiting while it paginates to 2250 pages, 
> then timing how long it takes for the Word Count dialog to give results, 
> it would appear the former: every keystroke /already/ calculates the 
> these statistics.
> 
> Thus, my first un-educated guess is that this should have very little 
> performance impact.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin
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