[Libreoffice-ux-advise] LO 3.6.2 : about Manage dialog from Conditional Formatting

Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.faure at sud-ouest.org
Tue Sep 25 21:35:57 PDT 2012


Hi,

Nobody interested to test and answer?

Well, it is clear that QA peoples are not welcome in this area of the
code. :-(

JBF

Le 25/09/2012 06:58, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Now, the bottleneck fdo#54498 has been fixed for LO 3.6.2, it is a great
> step toward making LO 3.6 usable for production !
>
> So I think it's time for developers to consider the severe UX issue we
> have with the Edit dialog from manage screen in Format -> Conditional
> Formatting -> Manage.
> The problem has been described in fdo#54774, fdo#54940, and on QA and
> UX-advise mailing-list. We had very few answers and only one developer
> (Markus) point of view. So I decided to ask on developers ML as it is a
> developer problem.
>
> To make the story short, I think it is crucial to make the Edit dialog
> from Format > CF > Manage > Button Edit to work exactly in the same way
> as Format > CF > CF, regardless the constraints from using relative
> references.
> My main argument is here :
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/2012-September/002653.html
>
> This Manage dialog is very important as it gives a summary of all CF
> defined in the current sheet. It is a long waited function for all
> peoples who are using CF in their spreadsheets. So a big thank you to
> Markus for that. But now it is important to not give a bad user
> experience with this new great function.
>
> If nothing is possible, I think the better thing to do is to remove the
> button Edit from the Manage dialog.
>
> Best regards.
> JBF, irritating QA people.
>


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