Re: [libreoffice-design] [UX] Inherited attributes on linked styles

Hi Ricardo, *

RGB ES schrieb:
> Here I am again with some of my draft ideas about Writer ;)
> Linked styles are one of those features that makes Writer Really
> Great: to set up a chain of styles that inherits some characteristics
> from a "parent" style helps a lot when you build a complex document.
> But this feature, in the way it is implemented now have one flaw: it
> is not possible, when editing a style, to tell apart which
> characteristic is inherited from the parent style and which is unique
> from the style considered.[...]
> I think it would be great to have a sort of check box (or maybe just
> an option on the list) to clearly state that the selected feature
> comes from the parent style, something like the very rough mock-up
> here:
> https://sites.google.com/site/rgbmldcwriterideas/parent-style.png
> What do you think?

It would be great to discriminate between inherited and new introduced 
styles.

And having a feature to put a characteristic back to the inherited mode 
is something I'd like to have used quite a few times in the past.

Your "inherited" check-mark seems to be not detailed enough in your 
mockup: It applies to font, weight and size at the same time.

Perhaps it would be possible to have the "inherited" characteristic 
marked in the list directly? Something like grayed out?
And an additional line at the bottom of the listbox "inherit from parent 
style" (changing to "inherited from parent" when the inherited 
characteristic is selected)?

I haven't been able to spend more time on this topic and on the related 
ones already discussed here and described at the wiki:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/PropertiesButtonLayout

Perhaps you and Astron can work together on this topic...

Best regards

Bernhard

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