Re: Mr. D strikes again

Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> On 9/11/06, Reinout van Schouwen <reinout@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
> That's a sore issue but I've not yet been able to come up with a
> proposal which is also visually appealing. Feel free to suggest
> something specific. In the meantime
> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/tmp/abiword-toolbar-03.png is a more
> consequent variation of the previous toolbar proposal with almost all
> buttons on the "format" menu providing menus (not quite sure about
> that, maybe takes time getting used to it).
>
>> [1] that window badly needs a redesign too, but that's another issue.
>
> I'm pondering that for some time but didn't have a satisfying idea so
> far. Time permitting (and noone speaking up against) I'll probably
> implement something along the lines of
> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/tmp/abiword-styles-03.png one day
> (the list on the left will be filled with property sections like
> "paragraph", "language", ...).
>
> - Rob
>
While you're at it, it might not hurt to keep in mind Tango
compatibility - the current icons from GTK+ who knows when might start
looking a bit outdated when vista comes out, and I'd personally be
interested in updating the visual style in the Windows build. (My
sights are on the icons that don't currently have a tango replacement,
as well as those "fill color" and "text color" icons that magically
change color but look a little funny in the process.)

Just an offhand suggestion, but might be worth thinking about.

Ryan

(ps. where did the sadly underused format painter go?)

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