[Libreoffice-ux-advise] InfoBars: problem when stacking too many of those

Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdonnat at suse.com
Thu Oct 4 07:55:12 PDT 2012


Hi Mirek,

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 16:38 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
> I deliberately left this scenario out of my proposal [1], because:
> a) If some infobars are hidden, it means the user is not made aware of
> some problems. All info bars should have similar importance, and thus
> it's not good to hide some and show some.
> b) LibreOffice developers should take care not to overuse infobars.
> They should also be careful to use them only to "offer possible
> remedies to document-related problems, or at least to give information
> about them so that the user can remedy them himself".
> c) If there are so many issues with a document that there's a flood of
> infobars, then the user should probably react to at least some of
> them. If he doesn't want to, he can always dismiss them.

Ok, then I'll leave that unbounded and we'll see what happens later.
Thanks for your quick answer.

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Cedric




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