Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposition to combine the Apply/Reset buttons

Hi Ricardo!

Am Dienstag, den 19.04.2011, 22:49 +0200 schrieb RGB ES: 
> 2011/4/19 Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com>:

[... Paragraph Styles Stuff ...]

> What about this crazy idea?: reset the style to former status is an
> "administrative task", so let's put the Standard button *only on the
> Organizer tab*, for example just below the "Contains".
> After all you should not need to use the "Standard" button so often:
> it needs to be available, but not in front of you all the time...
> What do you think?

Very good idea! I thought a little bit about this issue and found only
minor problems, so let's see what it "costs" and what might get better.

What might be better: You're right that it fits much better in the
Organizer tab - you directly see the change in the textual description
of the derived style. And, it might help to explain what it actually
does.

I've searched for some dialogs and found these two ones that behave
similarly (in Germany, sorry):

"Standard"
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/h0aC8YbHwnzDsFKEXhlDIA?feat=directlink

"Zurücksetzen"
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fBJb67-kV-EjEwvVuYd6Lw?feat=directlink

The downsides I can think of:
      * The additional button made it easier to distinguish between the
        Paragraph and Paragraph Styles Dialog
      * The button below all tabs makes clear that pressing it might
        affect all dialog elements (which by the way is not true for the
        today's buttons in this dialog)
      * It might be easier for users to find this functionality (well,
        its there all the time)
      * Changes in this dialog affects a lot of documentation, so we
        have to be careful with any changes here

My proposal: Let's collect the improvements proposals for this dialog
(along with the generic button stuff by Astron. Could you be so kind to
add this to the wiki, please?

Mmmh, how about a "Writer Improvements" sub-page within the Whiteboards
section?

Finally, Ricardo, great thoughts!

Cheers,
Christoph


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