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

Hi Aurélien,
The whiteboard for the popover is up:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Style_Popover.
Feel free to tweak the scope based on what you're willing to do, then add a
proposal section alike to the one at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Whiteboard_Templateand
change the status to "Call for Proposals". Then you can add your own
proposal(s).

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Aurélien Naldi
<aurelien.naldi@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Hi Mirek,
>
> I added a brief description of my proposal there and I plan to join you on
> IRC tonight.
>
>
>
> > 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.)
>
>
> The code pointer sure help a lot! I'll probably want to use the same class
> for the character style selector.
>
>
> Best
>
> --
> Aurélien Naldi
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Mirek M. <mazelm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Aurélien Naldi
> > >
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>
>
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> Aurélien Naldi

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