Re: Mr. D strikes again

Hi Robert,

2006/9/11, Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>:

> The basic ideas are:
> 1) Have a "standard" toolbar that doesn't contain anything abiword
> specific, has functions available through shortcuts and can therefore
> be easily turned off by single toolbar fetishists.
> 2) Have a "formatting" toolbar that contains a maximum of a dozen most
> frequently used actions.
> 3) Subtly encourage use of styles over font/size/b/i/u

> How is the climate for toolbar changes these days? Or is it just that
> my proposals suck?

This is good stuff, as far as I'm concerned. One suggestion, though:
make it easy to get to the create/edit styles window[1], possibly with
a toolbar button next to the styles dropdown.

[1] that window badly needs a redesign too, but that's another issue.

regards,

-- 
Reinout van Schouwen