Re: [libreoffice-design] Writer background image - contest! :-)

Le 19/04/2012 17:01, Stefan Knorr (Astron) a écrit :
> To me, the idea seems sensible, but just as Mirek said, just adding a
> document background doesn't make the application that much prettier.

+1

> What is indeed quick to fix is the document background. Applying the
> same sickly hue of blue that the toolbar backgrounds currently use,
> looks actually quite okay. Try setting the document background to
> RGB(221,227,243), for instance.

Why not.

> [1] A list of stuff we can probably remove from the standard toolbar:
> * Send as email (do people use that? for me, it doesn't play a role,
> because I usually want to check that I've done everything looks okay
> in an exported document.)

yes

> * Print preview (I don't think that many people use it, )

hu? Live it alone, please. I do it all the time and know plenty of 
people using that icon.
IMO, it can be removed if and only if a standard keyboard shortcut is 
assigned to the File/Print preview menu entry.

> * AutoSpellcheck (the only people who I've seen turn that off are
> people that are presenting stuff on OHP, but use a text document for
> that purpose; another use case would be making screenshots of eg
> diagrammes that you could add to another document later – we should
> encourage neither use case)
> * Format Paintbrush (counters our goal to encourage using styles)

Oh yesss!

> * Add Hyperlink (is usually added automatically)

dunno. Perhaps people creating errr... web pages... using Writer?

> * Gallery (completely useless right now)

Yes.

BTW, the Tools/Gallery menu should be Display/Gallery.

> * Non-printing characters (users set that once, never use it again)

Mmmm... Remember that non-printing chars will govern the page borders 
appearance in 3.6.x (Cedric has reintroduced the former page borders 
that 3.5.x had lost). Thus, having a direct switch will be convenient, I 
think.

> * Data sources (probably used rather seldomly)

Yes. Data sources are used by people with some knowledge, so pressing F4 
is probably a no-brainer for them.

> * Help (?? there's a menu for that )

Yes. F1 is the way to go, anyway.

> [2] I still much prefer removing the status bar over removing the rulers.

No, don't remove them as both are usefull.
The rulers because you can see the current settings (I discourage using 
them to actually set parameters as this can be quite approximative).
The status bar because it displays the... hem... document status. And, 
perhaps, can be used (double-click) for a quick access to some parameters.


I'd add to the list:

* Drawing tools

First, there's a Display/Toolbars/Drawing that does that. Second, the 
question is: do people often use the drawing tools in Writer? IMO, they 
should be directed to the Draw module.

* Styles and formatting

(1) People using styles know what they are doing and have heard about 
F11, and (2) they usually set this once and for all.

* Increase/Decrease paragraph margins

Use styles instead :)
I know of no-one who use these.

--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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