Re: [libreoffice-design] Hide ruler by default?

Majority says disable by default. For usability as well as aesthetics, 
I'd say:
a) most people use tabs for indentation, and do it on their default values;
b) on most machines, it looks prettier without rulers. I use a very good 
GTK2 theme, so the rulers are really fancy, but it's not the rule (pun 
intended);
c) screen real estate, as already stated (pun intended) by many;
d) using the ruler is a rather advanced formatting tool, if compared to 
the current ease of turning it on/off;
e) we could always take it back, if we manage to improve it's size, 
looking etc., or if we favor direct formatting or at least auto-updating 
of styles.

For all the above reasons (and no reason against it so far), I believe 
we should disable it by default. There will always be time to review 
this in the future when analysing other defaults (which I agree we 
should do, Kévin, just not now IMHO).

PS.: just for being the devil's advocate, disabling it by default could 
lead some to think it's not offered in the suite. However, I don't 
believe someone who would actually miss it would, at the same time, 
think it's gone for good or not be able to find it in a few seconds.

Em 14-10-2011 23:00, Kévin PEIGNOT <peignot.kevin@kpeignot.fr> escreveu:
> Does a UI expert says what he thinks ? Because actually, it seems it should
> be disabled (majority seems to think this)
>
> Kévin

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