From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 11:11:46 EST
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 14:13, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> The devil is in the details. If jump into this battle you gotta go all
>> the
>> way and not just wave your hands....
>
> Be careful what you wish for:
> http://www.charlietech.com/tmp/toc-mockup2a.png
> http://www.charlietech.com/tmp/toc-mockup2b.png
> http://www.charlietech.com/tmp/toc-mockup2c.png
>
> On the third one, I just copied the fields from other proposals. I
> don't really understand or agree with some of them:
>
> o Shouldn't the fill style and display style fields be option menus
> instead of text fields?
I Don't think so. There are well over 30 styles built into AbiWord
already. Now that we have expandable tree menu's via the stylist dialog I
think we should use them. Also the Stylist dialog will have the ability to
create new styles.
The "change" button brings up the stylist dialog from which the user can
pick what they want.
Wel that was my initial idea. However this does mean we have cascading
dialogs here, which as Dom oints out, isn't really in the spirit of the
HIG.
We continually faced with balancing ease of use for some people with
providing powerful features to others.
I'm not an expert on UI and will happily eterntain other pointsof view.
> o What is 'fill style' and it's difference from the display style?
The TOC gets filed with user-selectable styles. eg "Heading 1" or "Figure
1" or "My Cool Heading Style"
The style of displayed headings, (what font, boldness, underlining) that's
displayed is user selectable too. It's "Contents 1" by default for the
first level but it could anything the user wants.
> o Should the indent also have an option of being either absolute or
> relative to previous level?
The left indent is a property of the "display style" so can be anything
the user desires. The "indent" show in my original dialog is the indent of
the
page number on the right side of dialog. In retrospect, this could be a
property of the style too but it is convient to have a single control in
the dialog to adjust it.
I guess your asking if we want to allow th user to control it and adjust
it for different levels? I think I put that in the orginal dialog.
More comments later. Thanks for your work on this Charlie.
Cheers
Martin
>
> If you noted the abscense of the header style, my thoughts on that were
> to have it as part of the option menu alongside the levels.
>
> I kept the preview pane out of the tabpane as it's always relevant.
> --
> - Charlie
>
> Charles Goodwin <charlie_at_xwt.org>
> Online @ http://www.charlietech.com
>
>
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