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

[Christoph Noack]

Hi Cedric, all!

Just noticed a (known?) bug in the headers/footers: 
      * Create a new document 
      * Wait for the headers/footers indicators (by mouse hovering) 
      * Click on the "+" to add a header 
      * Expected result: Header appears, Undo is possible 
      * Current result: Header appears, Unto is not possible (there is
        nothing in the undo stack)

I think its important to fix that, since this might be the very first
contact with the new headers/footers.

Grrr, just checked with an older version of LibreOffice (3.3.2) - if I
add a header/footer, then not undo item is created as well. That's bad,
but noticing that was not so easy.

Do you want a Bugzilla issue?

Have a nice day!
Christoph

Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2011, 09:12 +0200 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 22:07 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 12.09.2011, 09:51 +0200 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> > > >       * Proposal: The whole button should act as a menu, so the vertical
> > > >         divider can go --> greatly simplifies to "hit" the button (sorry
> > > >         for mentioning that late)
> > > 
> > > Ok, let's do that... that'll require a few code changes... but nothing
> > > too complex.
> > 
> > Cool, that will help a lot!
> 
> Just did it yesterday night.
> 
> > > >       * Refined contrast by making a light blue / dark blue line -->
> > > >         unusual line for LibO (means people might notice that it's some
> > > >         markup)
> > > 
> > > I can't understand what you mean here... Can you give me some details?
> > 
> > Yes, I've used a line (middle color, full stroke, see below) as a
> > background and added another one (dark color, narrow dashed) at the top.
> > This will work on all kinds of backgrounds (dark and bright, even
> > changing), and is visually more pleasing (no hard contrast changes like
> > for simple dashed lines).
> 
> Ok I see: indeed it makes sense and isn't too hard to draw another line
> there.
> 
> > > Don't forget that those colors are configured, is there any way to
> > > compute one of the two colors form the other one?
> > 
> > Yep, although I had to note the Inkscape changes the colors strangely
> > when simply switching between pages in the the color definition
> > dialog ... so the given colors were slightly wrong, sorry!
> > 
> > I've "picked" the original color "a2dcfd" (middle color for the bottom)
> > and used the HSL color model to add 20 (range: 0...255) and the result
> > is "caebfe" (bright color for the top). If small variations occur, then
> > this doesn't matter at all. Does that help?
> 
> Sure it helps, but I assume you added the 20 to the Luminance value, is
> that right? I'll see what happens for colors with colors with a hight
> Luminance...
> 
> > > >       * (Anti-aliasing due to my graphics program)
> > > 
> > > Hum, I'll try to play with the OutputDevice configuration, it may be a
> > > bit to change to get it Anti-Aliased.
> > 
> > Oh, thanks! I've just wanted to mention that my graphics program does
> > anti-aliased output only, so that might be the cause for further
> > differences in the original / improved version. But if anti-aliasing
> > works, that would be awesome ...
> 
> I'll have a look at this: AA is implemented in LO basic output layers,
> let's use it.
> 
> > @ Astron: Just an explanation for the "+" sign. We've used the icon from
> > Calc for "New Sheet". The green on blue doesn't work well, that's right,
> > but it conforms to the rest of the icon set. But, I don't have strong
> > feelings on that ... so using a black icon is fine! Let's try it :-) 
> > 
> > So, Astron, thanks for the cool input! :-)
> > And Cedric, thanks for the cool output! ;-)
> > 
> > Mmh, shouldn't we soon put together a blog post about that? The initial
> > discussions, the nice hackfest work, the final outcome with lots of
> > (tiny but) helpful features? What do you both think?
> 
> Sure, I was thinking about it... and of course put write up on the 3.5
> new features wiki page.
>