Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [re-PUSHED] Re-sizing handles ...

Hi Stefan,

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 12:10 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
> here is the promised patch to (again) change the Tango handles
> slightly. It also adds a recoloured version of the sprite that fits
> better into Galaxy. (Patch again provided under LGPLv3+/MPL.) Sorry
> about the delay.

        Lovely; I pushed it - there was no need for me to review this stuff :-)
which reminds me - did you send me the bug # of the new account bug you
filed ? [ did you get to that ? ;-].

> For 3.5, let's try to make it work really well in the short time
> remaining: let's just remove the "large handles" option from the UI
> and always use larger handles.

        Sounds good to me; should be easy to patch out of the uiconfig/ files -
so it is at least not visible by default in the menus.

> Now, about the glue points: my best explanation is that they are drawn
> atop each other right now, at least the bug with the yellow background
> doesn't go away even when the yellow background is completely removed
> from the deselected glue handle (which it is now); is maybe [1]
> helpful here? (Btw, two lines above that, the comment says something
> to the effect of "size fixed to 7px for now".)

        Oh - that is nasty. I cleaned up the code a bit there and adapted it
for 9x9 glue-points, and the centering looks a lot better now :-) good
catch.

> The problem is, the second example isn't animated and it's not even
> a11y related, so all users get to see this. (See the screenshot
> attached.)

        Oh - that is bad. How do I reproduce that screenshot ?

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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