[Libreoffice-ux-advise] simplifying the border width settings

[Milos Sramek]

Hi,

I fully agree, setting of border/line thickness is a problem. A month ago I

- sent my suggestions regarding this:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2012-October/001453.html 


- submitted a bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48622

- prepared related dialog mockups:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=59895

Simplification of border setting would be very useful.

Milos
Dňa 18.11.2012 12:52, Markus Mohrhard wrote / napísal(a):
> Hey,
>
> currently we have a large set of problems around borders that are to a
> big deal caused by our too complex border behavior. In several bugs I
> already mentioned that IMHO the only sane solution is to limit the
> border width to maybe 3 or 4 different values that we can both control
> in the view and in the export to PDF and to the printer. This would
> also help to simplify the border handling in the cod beetween the
> different applications.
>
> Currently we support defining the border  width between 0.05 pts and
> something like 10 pts (everything above 2pts is anyway too thick) but
> displaying these borders creates several problems due to antialising
> (fixed in 4.0 through disabling of border antialising) and that until
> 3.6 the view did some ugly hacks that showed wrong border widths in
> the view and used the right ones when printing.
>
> I propose to simplify this and limit the values to HAIRLINE, THIN,
> MEDIUM and THICK with sensible values and map the old values to them.
> This should not be such a big problem because until 3.6 at least the
> UI behaved in a similar way due to a bug.
>
> Do you have any suggestions to this proposal?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
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