Hi Octavio, thanks for your mail ... it seems that my thoughts didn't make it into the mail :-)
Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 10:02 -0700 schrieb Octavio Alvarez: > Hi, Christoph, all. I agree with what you said, except the following, and > I want to point out some examples. Please do ... > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:25:26 -0700, Christoph Noack > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 1. We could have just one more button in that window, called 'New > >> Style'. It would have a small drop down, with just two options: 'New > >> Style', and 'New Style Based on Selected', which would create, > >> respectively, a completely new style or a new one based on the one which > >> is highlighted. > > > > We already have a little drop-down that might help here ... but I don't > > mind if we add a more self-descriptive button. > > > > Still the point is - why do people need to add more styles? I think the > > number of styles is quite sufficient, but maybe the defaults are > > unwanted ... don't know. > > When writing an interview script I create styles that are named after each > of the characters in it in different colors. > > When writing a play script I want to have styles named "location", > "time-of-day", "dialog", etc. with different alignments and indentations. > > When creating an personal calendar I use styles named "personal", > "meeting", "high priority", "work", "done", with different colors, font > weight, or even bullets (e. g., using a check mark for "done"). > > When writing an interview questionnaire I want styles like "question" and > "answer", where each are in a different color or font attributes and > "question" is set to have "Next Paragraph: answer". > > Those are all real examples I use or have used, except the second one. Okay, I had two three things in mind that didn't make it into the mail: * We have lots of different styles built-in, but I doubt that each of the style has a sensible setting - so can we improve the styles we already have instead of (also) improving the way to add those. * We talk about adding / changing styles in a document - but why it is needed to built all these styles (each time a document gets created?). Do we miss good templates - definitively. Do we miss a good way to let people create their own templates easily - probably. * If people create styles, do they derive styles from other styles (and do they know what this means), or do they rather use "Standard" being the parent style? So what I wanted to say is, that there might be ways to improve the situation globally - instead of improving thing locally. Mmh, maybe there is even a way to figure out the numbers of usage via the OOo data collection ... By the way, I'm one of those who work with MS Office 2007 at work - and I haven't found a sane way yet (sane = feels like it has been designed this way) to add a style. Thus, finally, we may put our thoughts into a mockup and continue the discussion ... due to some personal duties, I miss the time (which is really sad, since this might help to continue ... but maybe Rafael can jump in). Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
