Heiko, * Sorry if I missed the boat during discussions for dropping an edit buffer for input but it is the correct workflow for composing and entering strings. Unfortunately the impact of replacing it with single character pick/place is a major loss of function that was not discussed or reviewed. it is not about the number of key strokes needed to place a character to canvas, rather it is about the ability to work with multiple fonts and the language scripts they support.
Discussion and work in tdf#34882 [1] was for adding search, a favorites/recently used glyph list, and even OCR search. It did not include removing the "Characters" edit bar/edit buffer and the whole work flow it supported. That somehow came out of the design session [2] placing emphasis on shifting UI to only a recently used pick list. It frankly removes one of the most useful features of LibreOffice for working with multiple scripts. For comparison of what is being lost, please have a look at the Windows utility BabelMap [3], or the BablePad text editor that incorporates it. The multi-line "edit buffer" there allows assembling Strings of glyphs, even as sentences, from multiple fonts. We should be implementing more features supporting that Unicode based workflow, not removing them. For LibreOffice the dialog benefits from the addition of recently used glyphs, as for tdf#34882, but removing the "Characters" edit bar deletes useful interface for no reason. Before this gets too far, please restore the "Characters" edit bar as a buffer for composing strings as removing it was ill-considered. Providing just a pick/place to canvas UI is wrong. Stuart =-ref-= [1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34882 [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PxkIpkzgWF1cX9oQmBhjiTBhUXvUEqbz06Bn4hzbF54/edit [3] http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html > From: Heiko Tietze > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 6:25 AM > To: V Stuart Foote > Cc: libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org > Subject: Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] GSOC work on Special Character dialog > > Hi Stuart, > > this modification is being done intentionally. I don't see the benefit > from clicking > <FOO> > (into the edit bar) plus Insert (to actually > insert the string) compared to double-click > <F> > <O> > <O> > which inserts > the chars into the document and adds them to the list of recently > used. One click less (okay, two more if you count double-click twice). > But more important, we focus on the actual workflow. I doubt the > usefulness of compiling a string from the special chars, and at least > 90% users will use only a few special chars but never make a special > string. > The workflow/design was introduced in 2015 at > https://user-prompt.com/de/libreoffice-design-session-special-character/ > without concerns about lost functionality. > > Cheers, > Heiko -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/GSOC-work-on-Special-Character-dialog-tp4217853p4218505.html Sent from the UX-Advise mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise