Re: [libreoffice-design] Page numbers on background

Hi Phil, everyone,

2011/6/23 Phil Howard <imagin8or@gmail.com>

> Forking thread:
>
> > Mirek M:
> > > Since everyone's putting their UI proposal up, I'll do so too:
> > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Mirek2 .
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Astron <heinzlesspam@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > I found the page number next to every page so useful that I
> > immediately opened a bug for it, I hope this was not completely
> > uncalled for, anyway, the bug is here:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38597 .
>
> Agree it's a good proposal to show the page number. However, if the
> user has zoomed in or resized their window and can't see the number
> any more, then you end up needing the page number elsewhere on the
> screen as well, and if they can't see all of the page on the screen
> they probably don't want to lose more space to toolbars/statusbars.

The number will be shown on the status bar, just as it is now. Besides, if
the user zooms in that much, then the thing he really needs to see is the
document content, not the page number, and putting the page number anywhere
will just take away valuable space.

> I would suggest that the page number floated beside the top left/right
> corner of the *visible* page. Then when you are looking at the bottom
> of page 2 and the top of page 3, you'd see the 2 at the top and the 3
> beside the corner of page 3.


It's definitely something worth looking into.


> It could even float on the page with a
> very light colour when the user can't see the document window
> background.

I'd be against this sort of overlay -- it could very easily get in the way,
and if the button ever became clickable in future iterations, it couldn't be
shown in a page.

> Additional benefit - when the user scrolls quickly by dragging the
> scroll bar, the page marker would stay in the same place.
>
> Further development could be to add contextual actions if the user
> selects the page number - go to page N, insert page, etc.

In the original (Citrus UI) proposal, the number also serves as a page (or
slide) handle. When you click it, you get a contextual toolbar with all the
commands pertaining to the page [group]: page style, layout, format,
orientation, margins, columns, borders, header, footer, etc.

Also in the proposal, a special "Add page" button appears at the end of a
document.

This could all, of course, be implemented after the page numbers.

> Incidentally, if the user displays facing pages, the page numbers will
> need to be positioned correctly either side of the spread.
>
> Philip H
>
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