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Hi Christoph,

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 23:58 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
The separator mark is as shown in the attached picture because... but as
I'm a bad designer, I'ld like you to have a look at it and tell me how
it should look like.

I'd like to ask a few questions:
      * Is the position of the header/footer "markup line" always the
        page margin? If yes, then the dashed markup line would interfere
        (a bit) with the margin.

Yes, it always in the margin... In a previous implementation I had, the
markup was moving when scrolling horizontally. That may be an
interesting thing to add again.

      * What color is used for the markup? Is it something borrowed by
        the operating system, or is it somehow hard-coded?

The colors are simply hard-coded ones. I used the "Blue 1" and "Blue 4"
colors from the branding marketing page.

      * Is this just a "passive" element or is there any "active" stuff
        like another context-menu or actions on clicking the markup.
        (Rationale for that question: In MSO a dedicated header/footer
        ribbon element gets added. In our case, we might help the user
        to find out how to format the header/footer easily - e.g. by
        calling the dedicated page formatting dialog).

ATM it's purely a passive element... but we may enhance it if you have
some ideas of what to do with it ;)

Final question, who is the source for adding this markup? I'm asking the
question because MSO started to remove any margin indicators, so they
need this indicator to make sure people know that they are working in
the headers/footers section. In our case, we already have such
indicators (of course, this does not imply these indicators are helpful
at all ;-)

I implemented it because of a user request.

-- 
Cédric Bosdonnat
LibreOffice hacker
http://documentfoundation.org
OOo Eclipse Integration developer
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr


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