On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 16:44 +0100, Michel RENON wrote: > Hi, > > Le 13/11/11 19:32, Christoph Noack a écrit : > > Hi August, hi Michel! > > > > Thank you both for offering your support. Do you think it might make > > sense to subscribe to bug 38889 (maybe adding a comment)? So other > > people will know that somebody will have a deeper look at the issue. > > > > Michel, if you want to discuss a solution proposal ... happy to help! > > > > Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38889 > > > > I finally uploaded my proposal ! > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Macros_Dialogs > > It's a very first idea, lots of details may be enhanced. > Hi Michel
I wanted to add something here - it isn't directly about your ideas on the dialog update, though I think that is a good idea. Rather on the subject of the email subject :) Making macro editing easier. While, as I said, I agree that the dialog/macro/library management dialog could be improved and should be, I believe that it is not the primary UX issue with macros. The largest issue I see is how macros ares assigned to different events. Currently one has to know what you want to do, before you know what you want to do - what do I mean: One example: Open a document select Tools>Customize>Events. Click on the macro button Browse for an appropriate macro Don't find one Close the macro selection dialog Close the Customize dialog Open the Macro Dialog Select a library / or create a new one Now edit it in the IDE Ok finish up your macro Close the IDE Go back to Tools>Customize>Events Find the event you wanted - again Click on the Macro button - again Browse for the correct library/macro - again Select it. My suggestion as the place to get the most bang for the effort would be to address this workflow, such that anyplace in the application where one can assign a macro the UI allows the user to - jump directly to the IDE (when needing to create a new macro) - generate a small stub for the macro body (with a name based on the event being assigned) - upon saving the work in the IDE -- return to the spot they entered from with the newly created macro assigned. Anyway - I do like your ideas on the dialog and I'm not saying that it isn't worth pursuing, just that I think addressing this other workflow, either as part of this effort or as a stand alone effort would render the greater improvement to the user's experience. Finally - thanks for your efforts here - I hope others in the UX/Dev groups pick up on it and help you out with it. Best wishes, //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
