Re: [libreoffice-design] Page numbers on background

Hi Astron,

2011/6/24 Astron <heinzlesspam@googlemail.com>

> Hi,
> > On a side note, when fast-scrolling through artists on an iPod classic or
> > contacts on an Android phone (and probably iPhone), the first letter of
> the
> > current artists/contacts you're scrolling through is shown front and
> centre
> > on screen in a huge transparent font. Something similar to this could be
> > quite nice in LO with page numbers in Writer and Slide numbers in
> Impress.
>
> Good idea, but it would look less than amazing in LibO. Currently even
> even simple actions like clicking on one of the buttons in the start
> centre can produce a flicker. Unless anyone really decides to rewrite
> LibO in Qt or GTK/Clutter, such a feature won't make users (at least,
> me) happy.
>
>
> As it currently looks in the little survey, there are many of you that
> will need page numbers in another place, too, not just on the document
> background—because you're working in a non-maximised window (that's
> what I meant by full-screen, sorry for the confusion) on often smaller
> screens or use multiple pages/multiple documents at once. So I give up
> on wanting to remove page numbers from the status bar.
>
>
> @Mirek:
> > 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.
>
> I don't know, but I can't imagine this kind of behaviour when the page
> numbers are not always visible. When you add a menu to the page
> numbers you easily start depending on them and sometimes not seeing
> the numbers will create confusion and enrage users who wonder where
> the easy way of adjusting the page just went. Many probably will
> assume that they'll have to zoom out again (if they don't know they
> can find the same things in the (context) menu).

If the page number were to become a clickable handle, the user could always
scroll horizontally to see it -- no need for zooming out.

The number wouldn't be a menu, but a handle used for selecting a page
[group]. When clicked, you'd get a toolbar dedicated to the page [group],
much like when you click a picture in LibO and get the Picture toolbar.


> Astron.
>
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