Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the "Templates and documents" dialogue

Hi everyone,

2012/3/9 Stefan Knorr (Astron) <heinzlesspam@googlemail.com>

> Hi Mirek,
>
> > Here's what I'd suggest. Since 95% of the time, the user will use the
> > dialog to pick a template, let's use single-click to open a template.
> Let's
> > have a selection mode with which the user could select and move files.
>
> I guess that's helpful for Tablet LibO... For desktop LibO the
> behaviour seems extremely inconsistent.
> Almost all desktop file managers have an option that allows opening
> files/folders with a single click, but I've yet to see one where this
> was deemed so useful to be enabled by default (I guess KDE 3 Konqueror
> used to have it enabled by default, but that is the only app I
> remember – in Dolphin, this choice was reverted, too).

AFAIK, it's still the default in Dolphin, isn't it?

And more distros are moving to single click. As I mentioned, Gnome
applications (including Nautilus) are going to use single-click.
Microsoft's Metro UI uses single click. Unofficial desktop versions of
Android use single-click, and it's expected that Android 5.0 will
officially support mouse+keyboard-based interaction. Google Docs uses
single-click to open files.

Double-click itself is very inconsistent itself. For example,
single-clicking an application icon in the launcher will launch it, but
single-clicking an application icon on the desktop will select it. There is
no single rule to say what acts on double-click instead of single-click --
you just have to learn by trial.

> > Lastly, template categories should be managed inside the Template dialog,
> > not from Options (it's bloated enough :) ). How about having an options
> > button (with a gear icon, I presume) next to every category heading,
> which
> > would trigger a menu including options to rename or delete the category
> > (deleting the category would simply move its templates to the
> > "Uncategorized" category). There could be an "Add category" button at the
> > bottom of the template grid.
>
> Sounds good...
>
>
> Astron.
>
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