Enrique wrote: > But I do feel like Byfield and others that Impress redesigners have let > themselves drop in the "eye candy" mistake. I feel that some functions > that are simple in 1.1.4 are complicated by the new design.
I must confess that at first I also had this impression at least sometimes. But meanwhile I have become converted. There are so much real improvements in the GUI that make working easier, faster and more intuitive, especially if you don't do just trivial things (adding some text or some simple shapes) but also work heavily with effects, master pages, styles, templates etc. > I miss the old long-click toolboxes, this is bloodyly true in Impress > and Draw. There are just NO menu items to insert several drawing > objects. They can be added ONLY from toolbar buttons. And the initial > Tools toolbar or Impress is crowded with new Shapes (some as useful for > professional work as hearts, pointed stars, rolled papers etc), but some > regular items are "lost in translation". I doubt that the missing long-click toolboxes are something important even for people that where lucky enough to find and understand them. IMHO opening toolbars by clicking on an arrow is more intuitive and easier to handle (especially for people with physical disabilities) than "long-click" toolboxes. If you remove something there will always be people that miss it, that's true. But concerning the new Impress GUI the vast majority of users tell us that it is the biggest step forward in the new OOo version. You name some particular problems you had with it (I omitted them in my quote), so please file enhancements requests for them and I'm sure that everything that isn't just nitpicking will be seriously considered by the developers. > Why toolboxes did not behave as the old long-click toolbars?: they > remember the last tool used and you do not need to reopen it again. I agree that this is unfortunate. Maybe this is a bug? I don't know. Again filing an issue might help. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
