Re: [libreoffice-design] [DISCUSS] Proposal to improve style workflow in writer

Hi Aurélien,
Sorry for the late response.

I agree that the current Style workflow isn't as simple or efficient as it
could be.

I resurrected an old whiteboard with a similar topic:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Style_management .
Please tweak the scope according to what you would like to work on and add
your proposal.
We'll talk about the proposals next Saturday at 16:00 UTC on our weekly IRC
chat [1] and try to agree on a tentative design. Do you think you could
join us? If it's not a good time, we can reschedule.

To get familiar with the LibO code, you could try working on our proposed
EasyHack regarding styles :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62081 . Ask Kendy to add the
code pointers for that. (I'm ccing him on this message.)

I'm really excited to have you onboard! :)

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Aurélien Naldi <aurelien.naldi@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been an irregular user of LibreOffice since the old staroffice days,
> but also a LaTeX user for longer texts. I would like to share some ideas on
> realistic improvements for people who want to use styles exclusively.
>
> My main gripe with the current GUI is that everything encourages ad-hoc
> formatting instead of reusing styling. I feel that the use of style should
> not require using the crowded style dialogs more than ad-hoc formatting. To
> address this, I propose two main changes: a "style toolbar" to replace the
> formatting toolbar, and a redesign of the stylist to let us edit common
> properties from the stylist directly (along with some other changes). Some
> of the proposed things may not be easy to implement now, but I feel that a
> partial implementation would not be problematic and would greatly improve
> my workflow in LibreOffice.
>
> I'm also a newcomer to this mailing list or to design work, thus let me
> know if I'm doing this wrong!
> Should I open an enhancement request instead of (or in addition to) using
> the mailing list?
>
> You can find a mockup here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2vqqmlj1k4msjx/LO_wireframe.pdf<
> https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fp2vqqmlj1k4msjx%2FLO_wireframe.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUGdCeKHQ5g_FaNvqyCuIvAUSXEw
> >
> Excuse my poor artistic skills!
>
> PS: I'm willing to contribute code if there is interest in this kind of
> changes, but would need some guidance.
>
>
> Best.
>
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> Aurélien Naldi
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