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On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
Hi,

some time ago, I had posted some messages on the FR users list about 
that feature and was directed to this (at the time, for me) hidden list 
by Cedric.

I think that feature is ok per se, but as it is currently implemented 
(Writer v.3.5) is not complete: it lacks an option to set it back.

Yes. Set it back.

When I'm creating a new document, the zoom function is usually set to 
close up. Thus, in the middle of the page, I can't see the new top and 
bottom "angles", which makes difficult (read: impossible) to visually 
place any item (image or paragraph let or right position come to mind) 
relatively to the margins.

So, introducing the new feature is ok for me as it may help some users. 
But this decision should not interfere with satisfied users who now 
*lack* an important visual clue when devising their documents. In the 
previous releases, the option was there: users could display or hide the 
text limits; why change that?

This opinion seems somewhat shared by some others since the v.3.5 
release. What people here think?
...

+1
and it's probably worth pointing out this thread on the users list:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg16735.html>
[[libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 - Can't see page margins in Writer]
for reference.

Eliminating the Text Boundaries margin borders is (IMO) a definite
regression.

This list doesn't seem to be very apparent to any users and is not
listed here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
or here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/#Global_Lists
or here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/#Local_Regional_Lists
and seems to only be here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
[Meeting ground for hackers and UX experts - get advise here for user
experience questions.
Please confine discussions about implementation details and
decision-making about the right UX solution to the respective lists.]

So is this the correct list, or is the design list more appropriate? If
the latter is the case, then it appears that this request from January
has been ignored:
<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg03578.html>
[libreoffice-design] Text boundaries like 3.4.x

However, can anyone on this list point me (us) to a bug report detailing
the change from showing document borders to the existing 3.5 default of
not showing the borders?
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31251>
[Bug 31251 - [EasyHack] Make the default page look better ]
doesn't seem to address the issue. So how can a change like this be
changed without a specific bug report? Is merely creating a wiki page[1]
annotating such a change acceptable instead?

[1]
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Writer_SpecialIndicators#Document_Margin_Design>
[Document Margin Design]
--> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DocumentBorder>



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