Re: Styles management dialog

Hi Rob,

It looks very nice having it all pulled together, but (a) there is lot
of work involved in implementing this on all platforms, (b) it does not
allow us to reuse the standalone paragraph/font/etc. dlgs and so it
complicates maintenance. To me the latter is a serious drawback; dialogs
are pain to maintain in our cross-platform environment as is, and having
two different dlgs for every type of formatting really puts me off,
particularly considering that in the long run people spend fairly little
time editing styles. I am not convinced that the more pleasant user
experience is in this case worth the price.

Tomas

Robert Staudinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i uploaded mockups for the styles dialog we talked about. It's really
> a hard one to get right and therefore fun to work on ;-)
>
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-01-base.png
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-02-paragraph.png
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-03-font.png
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-04-tabs.png
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-05-numbering.png
> http://stereolyzer.net/styles-mockups/styles-mockup-06-language.png
>
> It would be really nice IMO if we could reuse the existing dialogs and
> embed them, like i did in the mockups.
>
> How could it work:
>
> - In the top part one can select which styles to choose from, the actual
> list is in the big combo which acts as a preview at the same time. So
> it's possible to "viually scan" the style before selecting it when the
> combo is
> opened.
>
> There needs to be a clear disinction between the top part and the main
> part. This is not yet optimal in my mockups. We need bigger spacing,
> maybe an additional label
>
> - The main part is for editing the selected style's properties. The list
> on the left is for selecting which kind of properties to edit. We should
> put icons there as well as the text that's in the mockups.
>
> The actual dialog is embedded for editing the style's properties. So
> everything is together in one dialog and can easily be navigated. Some
> of the individual dialogs might of course need some extra work to
> perform well in standalone as well as embedded mode.
>
> This is a very quick shot, please let me hear what you think.
> Best,
> - Rob
>
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 13 19:40:11 2005