Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New design

Citrus has one thing right.

When editing a document you need "Insert - Styles - Text - View".
Float "Document", "Page", "Paragraph" and "Defaults" where ever you 
want, but most are used to the upper left hand corner.  Heck, maybe 
"Paragraph" should be under "Defaults" anyway.

Why "Styles" instead of "Paragraph" before "Text".  Because once you 
start writing documents over 2 pages, your not going to edit that way 
unless you really are GUI only.

What they got wrong was where they put it.
The optimum is when you right click anywhere in the document and 
"Insert, Styles, Text, View"
shows up there. Don't waste space putting things on the edge.  Once a 
sub-menu is paused on, it stays open unless you move your cursor to the 
next sub-menu.

Add "Cut" to menu if an object (letter, frame, whatever...) is selected 
and add "Paste" to next click point. If it doesn't happen then, "Paste" 
is always under "Insert" for last object.

If you want it sexy, use flat rectangle selection sub-menu (mouse 
movement or up/down arrow keys) rotated based on cylindrical movement 
(mouse movement or wheel or left/right arrow keys).

If you can, visualize the selection with "show icon and text", "show 
text only" or "show icon only"

It reduces movement, avoiding things like when using Calc and a menu 
shows up in the middle of the screen for something your doing at the tab 
below.  Easy to see with my eyes, but what a lot of extra hand mouse 
movement.

If your going to change it, this is what's on my list.

On 11/28/2011 11:54 AM, Pedro wrote:
> I think Citrus looks like a change in the right direction!
>
> It keeps the menus on the top (thus not breaking with the past) but adding
> all buttons to the sides making better use of wide screen monitors. This
> design also solves the problem of where to put new toolbars: they should
> always appear on the sides (like in Gimp).
>
> This is not comparable to the stupid Ribbon, where MS decided which buttons
> the users use most and hid all others. In addition the Ribbon was so wide
> that it took a large vertical space... If you never used this design failure
> named Office 2010 in a netbook, then you should, just for fun lesson of what
> not-to-do :)
>
> In my opinion even the Default toolbar should move to the Right (and move
> less used toolbars to the Left) where there is less travelling distance with
> the cursor.
>
> I hope this is added ASAP!
>
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