Hi all,
Thanks for the ideas / proposals. Here few additions from me:
Cedric Bosdonnat wrote (13-05-13 09:50)
Hi Mirek, Michel,
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 10:47 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
60589 - [Template manager]: Can not copy styles between different files
and templates
[...]
Given that I wasn't in favor of the
shift in focus to organizing templates rather than creating new
documents from templates,
For me that also was a rather unexpected move in the process: I did not
understand before that also the menu File > Template and the sub menus
with the various functions were to be removed. But that's history.
I'm not the best person to design for the dialog.
Still I find this design from you :)
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Copying_Styles_from_Templates
thanks!
- I've added a description of the situation pre 4.0
Which is useful to consider proposals for the needed new situation
Also I added some ideas for
- the design by Mirek
- the places where this dialog may be used,
61396 - FILEOPEN: [Template Manager]Possibility to
edit a template that
is not in the repository, is lacking
I saw a comment with the proposal :
"when a user does "Open" from the "File" menu and selects a
template, then LO should open the template" ; instead of
creating a new file from the template".
It seems to be a coherent behavior : the user selects the
command "open" so LO must open. When the user selects "new
from template", then LO must create a new file from a
template.
Sounds good.
If everyone agrees on that, then it should be pretty quick to fix.
Could work, but would _introduce_ the opposite problem, that a user
cannot start a new file from a template that is not in the template
repository...
Currently, I do not see a way out without adding a (visual) option to
the file open dialog.. (as discussed in another thread).
Alternatively, I did thought of making the Edit button in the new dialog
having a submenu, where you can choose "Edit other template" or something.
Little problem there: the Edit button is only active when a template is
selected..
But maybe there is a solution?
If you really want to prevent modification of bad file, maybe
add an dialog asking confirmation : "Do you really want to
open the template 'test.ott' ? or create a new file from this
template ?"
Perhaps an infobar might be better?
Yes, InfoBar is the thing to use here.
That would indeed be needed to prevent unwanted editing of a file. Do
not forget that a. many people do not get/notice the difference between
.ott and .odt and b. file managers depending on settings hide extensions
(but honestly I did not check how it looks on WIndows with that option
checked for the Explorer.)
But I wrote _would_ be needed. As written further above: I don think
alas that it is a solution.
59427 - [Template Manager] low discoverability of new
template manager
- we could use "File → Organize templates" menu
>>
I agree
Still on the todo-list, sadly didn't manage to come to it.
What are your ideas?
I find this a nasty problem to solve.
One could think of:
File > Template > Save (exists in 4.0 in different wording)
File > Template > Edit/Magage
but then the latter would simply open the new File from template dialog?
Cheers,
Cor
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