Re: Toolbar / Styles dialog final proposals

Hi Rob,
> This is my final proposal, it incorporates some more feedback (from
> sum1, Reinouts, Martin ...).
> http://www.abisource.com/~robsta/tmp/abiword-toolbar-05.png
> The button right of the styles combo opens the styles dialog. The font
> menu is stolen from the gimp, maybe we can simplify it a bit by
> removing the scrollbars and buttons at the bottom.

I love the styles dialog (it is so much nicer that the current version
that clones the dialog from the other wordprocessor), but I personally
much prefer to see the font name in the font combo of the toolbar.

> Two issues remain:
> + Can we get along without left/center/right/justify in the toolbar?
> Maybe with the introduction of shortcuts?

I think we can, and possibly even without shorcuts. I think these are
not used that often for the lack of buttons to impact significantly on
the user's efficiency; if they were, they would have kbd shortcuts already.

> + I'm tempted to remove the Underline button as this is said to be a
> relic from typewriter days (it would of course still be available from
> the "Format -> Font" dialog).

I would agree. I might also argue the same for the text colour button
and the spellchecker; on the other hand, I would like to keep the
highlight button, as I use that often, probably most often of all the TB
buttons, after the style combo.

Tomas
Received on Tue Sep 12 14:15:13 2006