Hi Michael,
(Since this is purely UI talk, I'm only answering on the UX advise mailing
list)
2012/2/8 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>
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 :-)
Thanks. :)
(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 ;-) 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.
I beg to differ here: having up-front "Bold", "Italic", and "Underline"
buttons for quick formatting is always going to be better than forcing the
user to go through a drop-down menu for these items. If the user later
wishes to color all bolded items in the document, he can use the search
tool for that.
I did hide the font and size drop downs under the overflow menu, though,
since they are almost always use for whole paragraphs -- paragraph styles
are more appropriate here.
I also put in two distinct style drop downs -- one for paragraph styles,
one for character styles, to differentiate between what the styles apply to
and so that a person using styles frequently doesn't have to continually
switch between "character" and "paragraph" tabs.
In Citrus UI, I used
colors<http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/prominent-styles/>to
make style drop downs more prominent, but this didn't seem appropriate
for Android's Holo theme.
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.
Thanks,
Michael.
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