Hi, On Monday, 2011-10-31 00:06:20 +0100, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
pro modeless dialog: - modifications in the spreadsheet are possible while working with the dialog( is that really an advantage? makes handling of the dialog much more difficult if we for example delete a sheet and now several of the range names disappear or are modified)
Should that be listed under "con" instead? ;-) Additionally, any insertion/deletion/movement has to be reflected in the dialog as well if it affects the currently selected and displayed entry.
con modeless dialog: - marking a range in the spreadsheet can no longer automatically be used for the expression line ( nice feature in my opinion )
This IMHO is a killer, not being able to select a range using mouse or cursor keys is a significant drawback.
[...] So my idea would be to use something in the direction of Astron's suggestion but modal. Then we can think about how we can make ( if we still want) this dialog modeless without loosing performance for the 3-6 release. We would have a nice dialog for the 3-5 release without any regressions and will have enough time to think about how we can address the disadvantages of a modeless dialog.
Seconded.
And we should not forget that the feature freeze is 5 weeks and we should have finished our work on this except for some minor bug fixes.
Indeed, good point.
I know that this is not a perfect solution but in my opinion a new dialog which introduces performance problems is neither perfect. What do you think about this idea?
Like. Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD : 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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