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Hei Cedric!

Good to hear about the pop-up having disappeared (I am using 3.5.6 due to a memory bug).

A temporary header/footer after a double click should not change the layout at all. If the user really decides to enter text, the temporary header/footer could remain a foreground layer, overlapping and covering the rest of the document. Changing of the layout would be triggered only after the user clicks somewhere outside the header/footer, signalling that a header/footer should be inserted. Without text having been entered, the header/footer layer would just disappear, as if nothing had happened.

In my opinion, we could just leave header/footer creation the good old LibreOffice way. I am not overly fond of the idea of "copying MS Office to attract new users" and I don't think that actually works out anyways. But that's another story ...

Greetings,
Daniel M



On 3.9.2012 17:43, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
Hi Daniel,

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 10:55 +0200, Daniel Mania wrote:
A double click sounds like an OK idea to me, if the header/footer is
only created after text has been written to the header/footer (similar
to newly created textboxes that disappear when no text was entered and
cursor focus is put somewhere outside the textbox). At least it is
better than the "mouse over popup thing" that got introduced.

BTW the "mouse over popup thing" is dead in master and probably about to
be dead in 3.6 too (see my previous mail on that topic here and on the
qa list).

Creating a temporary header/footer isn't a good thing to do as it
implies relayouting the whole document, and checking all possible
shortcuts to eventually drop it (e.g. we should probably drop it if the
mouse clicks somewhere else or if the cursor is moved to outside the
header/footer)

--
Cedric

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