Re: Android design?

Hello all,

why not gather best of both worlds.

Warmful users are used to the icons B U I, so let them have it.  
Underneath, use fuzzy logic and apply styles:
If selection is empty or the selection looks like a paragraph, use a block  
style, else a char style.

My 2 cents.

Mat M
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Le Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:14 +0100, Christophe Strobbe  
<christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> a écrit:

> Hi,
>
> At 15:55 8-2-2012, Michael Meeks wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
> > > Hehe. Take a look at the amazing mock-up and ideas that Mirek has been
> > > working on for a while now:
> > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/
> >
> >         They look nice :-)
> >
> > > (No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet, but there's some
> > > pretty cool stuff there.)
> >
> >         So - one thing that I (personally) rather dislike is this "bold  
> > /
> > italic / underline" meme that still lurks heavily in new UI designs.
> > IMHO these need to be firmly held underwater until they expire ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot for highlighting this Michael. I also wish this wicked  
> witch were dead.
>
>
> > Good
> > mockups around making styles more visible and manageable, creating (and
> > customizing) new styles [ which can indeed include the
> > bold/italic/underline elements ;-] much appreciated for that.
>
> Last month there was a short thread on the LibreOffice-design list about  
> how the UI of LibreOffice could be modified to encourage the correct use  
> of styles (as opposed to ad-hoc styling). (The thread started at  
> <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg03586.html>.) We  
> should continue thinking about this.
>
>
> >         Otherwise, some good ideas there. Do we have excitable people  
> > wanting
> > to do UI work in Java - that we can plug together with the core in due
> > course ? it'd be great to parallelise that work.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe


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