Hi Mirek,
Mirek M. wrote (18-09-13 22:03)
OK. And maybe, when visible in the other modules, remove some
formatting toolbar?
I'm not sure if I said it in this post, but I look at the Properties
panel as the replacement for modal dialogs -- like the Inspector in Mac
applications. Thus I imagine it not acting as a replacement to the
toolbar, but as a supplement.
I understand that. But the controls on the formatting toolbar act as
such too.
When you're writing, you want your workspace to be clean, uncluttered,
so that you can focus on the task at hand. The toolbar serves you quick
formatting options, but generally stays out of the way (at least when
you remove or streamline and move the Standard toolbar). When you happen
to need an advanced formatting option that you rarely use, that's when
you show the Properties panel. It shouldn't be on full-time (unless you
refuse to use styles and constantly have breaks for using advanced
formatting options while creating content; that's not a use case we
should encourage, though).
Since the user won't be using the panel full-time and since the
Won't many people have the side bar visible all the time, just as the
tool bar?
Show/Hide button for the panel should be part of the contextual toolbar
itself, it would be good to keep the toolbar visible even when the
Properties panel is shown to not disorient the user.
That is what I mean with my objection: it serves direct formatting :(
Those ideas for panel behaviour look sound to me. But less important
in my view then the items I brought forward .. ;)
They're very important to me -- I can't stand the odd duplication we
have going on, with two Navigators, two Galleries, and two Style panes.
I agree that it is important to solve that.
But most important is proper use of documents and formatting. Thus I
would first focus on improving the use of styles via the side bar.
If you're using the Sidebar, you have to launch a separate Navigator in
case you need to use two panels at once.
And that might be hard to discover how to do, since it's not clear what
View -> Navigator or the Navigator icon in the toolbar will do.
That is nothing different from now :)
And when we talk about our new users: let's pls offer them great style
handling :)
As for the Properties panel, I'm hoping it will gain Style dropdowns
like those in the toolbar (Kendy's working on this). I see no
reason to
fill the Properties panel with styles, though, as we already
have the
Styles panel for that.
By the way: the styles panel is outdated, ugly, hides information and
actions...
No problem for me. But how much better could it be if the possibilities
in the side bar were used to make that modern etc.
(Just see the post of Olivier on ux-list - great idea to work out.)
It would be my strong, very strong, preference to make controls for
direct formatting hidden, far hidden, and clearly show styles in a
useful way.
Despite favoring styles, I wouldn't dismiss the usefulness of
hard-formatted bold/italic/underlines -- they're much simpler to apply
than styles and they're as easy to replace (using Find and Replace).
We can't hide the key B and I for the users, alas ;)
I would love for the font picker and font size picker to be
deemphasized, though, given that these two should almost exclusively be
applied through paragraph styles.
Should yes. The same for indent, alignment, ... all direct formatting
controls on the tool bar and in the side bar.
GMail had fonts under an icon-only drop-down before its redesign. [1]
Many mobile word processors do the same [2][3] (although Drive [4] has
the text label "Fonts" instead of an icon).
I would love for the font picker to use an icon-only drop-down as well.
That would not only deemphasize the font picker, it would also emphasize
the style picker, which would now be the widest element in the toolbar.
Like that idea as a good step.
I like the idea of seeing a life preview. On the other hand,
applying a style and hitting Ctrl-z or the undo button, or the other
style when it's not what is wanted, isn't a big deal too.
Of course. That's what the Styles panel is for. (That said, that panel
should really use single-click for applying styles -- double-click is
unnecessarily strenuous.)
You cannot change that click behaviour without other changes. (And read
what I wrote above about that panel...)
PS See you in Milan?
Yes, I hope so. :)
:) - good to continue part of the conversation while looking at the screen!
thanks & best,
Cor
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