> > > From a trainer and migration consultant perspective, I see the mess and > grief and productivity loss, along with interoperability issues caused > by direct formatting.
I see your point, but there are other types of users for LO. And sabotaging their way of working in benefit of others isn't the best way to accomplish it. > > > Making the access to direct formatting more difficult would just draw > > people away from LO to closed source office suites. > > So the challenge - where the issues are about - is to make working with > Styles more natural, visible. If that comes with the price of a _little_ > worse availability of direct formatting functions, I think that would be > worth it. But maybe that isn't even needed, looking at the great focus > of UX to make the best of LibreOffice > . > Well, I think that making working with Styles more natural and visible isn't mutually exclusive with having great availability of direct formatting options. The Sidebar offers great potential to make working with Styles a lot more intuitive than what it is now in its own section separated from direct formatting. But I think that the Styles Sidebar pane needs serious rework as most of the UI needed. The work done in 4.3 and 4.4 and in the future in 5.0 was enormous and of great quality but if someone wants to make the use of Styles simpler then it would be better to focus on making it better. That depends on the contributors and there's still plenty of work to be done in so many areas. > > > Regards, > Cor > > -- > Cor Nouws > GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 > - vrijwilliger http://nl.libreoffice.org > - volunteer http://www.libreoffice.org > - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
