On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 02:24:16PM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 12:30 PM 12/8/99 -0600, Stephen Hack wrote:
> >Is there any plans to put this into the paragraph dialog?  For it is a font
> >property.
> 
> It's a character property, so if it goes anywhere, it should eventually be 
> in the font dialog.  
> 
> For now though, I'd suggest that we hold off on redesigning that dialog for 
> a while, and probably not until after 1.0.   We'll eventually want to unify 
> the various platform font dialogs and add formatter support for a bunch of 
> additional character-level properties (like various underscore types, etc.). 
> 
> The right time to redesign that dialog is when folks are ready to add 
> support for a *bunch* of those more sophisticated properties.  Incrementally 
> redoing that dialog for every single new property is a pain for folks doing 
> the ports, and confusing for users.  
> 
> In the mean time, there are plenty of:
> 
>   - existing dialogs to finish (zoom, break, paragraph, options) and 
>   - new dialogs to add (tabs, insert date and time, page setup, etc.).
> 
> It's not like we're short on pre-1.0 UI work without this.  :-)
> 
> Paul

I currently have a tabs dialog designed in glade.  If you want to see it, it's
at

    http://argus.itg.uiuc.edu/~shack/abisource



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