Re: Proposed fix for #8001 RFC

On 5/30/05, Roland Kay <roland.kay@ox.compsoc.net> wrote:
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> Thanks for your input guys.
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> I think one of the problems with this is the expected
> behaviour rather depends upon the user's experience. A naive
> new user will see text in one document and expect that when
> pasted into another it will look the same, as Rob says. They
> will get upset if it doesn't and report it as a bug.
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> In contrast, an experienced user, who understands the power
> of styles and has gone to the trouble of setting up a
> complete style sheet for his/her documents, may get equally
> upset when the pasted content doesn't respect the style
> sheet of the target document. For example, abi currently
> has an option to disable formatting tools. I assume this is
> so the user can be sure not to accidentally add in any
> non-stylesheet formatting. However, with the former
> approach copying and pasting can still insert this type of
> formating info.
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> Might it make some sense to add some options to the
> Preferences dialog so that the user could choose the
> behaviour they want? Yet more work, but it offers the
> possibility of keeping experts and novices happy.

Now i see your point more clearly. If bad comes to worse we can make a
"Paste as" dialog, like other word processors do. About the preference
i'm not 100% sure because even during a single editing session the
desired paste mode can be different.

Cheers,
- Rob
Received on Mon May 30 18:37:47 2005