--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > > > > If you have to explain it, it's not clear enough. > > > > Whoops! Clearly a bug mistake has been made > somewhere. Before I > implemented "Normal Mode" this was not a problem at > all. > > > It works OK if you follow your instructions. But > there are lots of > > little confusing things about how it works now. > > > > Try AbiWord's defaults (extra toolbar off, normal > mode) and turn on > > "show paragraphs". Now try to use headers. All > the header controls > > are ghosted. > > > Clearly this is the problem. Normal Mode should not > be a default and edit > headers/toolbar buttons should get you out of Normal > mode. I don't know > how noraml mode got made default. It wasn't > originally.
I disagree. I hate page layout mode as I never print documents. But moreover I believe that everybody should be able to choose their preferred default mode. Abi should be fixed so that any mode as default "just works". > This isa classic example of why Modes Suck. Thanks > for the UI hints. I'll > do this. > > If you figure out how to add a header you have a bad > > situation where (in normal mode) body text appears > in the clearly > > marked header area. If you figure out to switch > to print layout > > and type, the first character of the header is > trashed. If you > > remove a header garbage appears on screen. > > > > Right. All bad bugs. This SHOULD NOT HAPPEN. I'll > make sure pressing > these buttons gets the user out of Normal Mode. I'm pretty sure that Dom hated the idea of the mode being switched under the user when doing certain operations. I and others described certain MSWord features that caused this to happen (columns) and they were not welcomed into AbiWord. > > How about this: > > > > Add a new menu item "insert->header". That's > where > > I expected to find it anyway. > > > > In "normal" mode zoom the page past the header. > Don't > > show body text in the header!!! > > > > Eliminate menu items relating to headers from the > edit menu. > > Eliminate the toolbar icons. > > > > Add a header enable checkbox in the page setup > dialog. > > Add a context menu to delete a header. > > > > Same for footers. The user will need to learn > about page layout mode, > > but won't be mislead at any point. > > > > > > > > Making "edit header" switch to print layout mode > is OK also, but at > > that point you've switched modes out from under > the user, which is > > bad. > > > > Maybe we should elminate "Normal Mode" altogether. > > Cheers > > Martin > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
