On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Allan Rae wrote:
> On 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Jules> Have a look at the screenshots. That's the kind of thing I was
> > Jules> thinking of.
> >
> > This indeed looks like an interesting project. However, I think that
> > this interface adds way too much clutter on the screen... A
> > lightweight version of this would be nice.
>
> FWIW, I'd skip the vertical bars clutter and make the document structure
> tree (on the very left in the screenshot) line up with the corresponding
> elements in our WYSIWYM canvas. The tree could even be coloured if so
> desired. There should also be the option for full or contracted
> environment names in the tree.
That's better for people with big enough screens. For people with smaller
screens, the vertical bars (and no tree view at all) may be preferable.
>
> Of course we'd then support drag-and-drop movement of entire paragraphs in
> the structure tree and promotion/demotion as well. A fancy kind of
> outline mode.
>
> Not an easy task for xforms but gtk-- and KDE seem to provide all the
> necessary widgets for this. Better hurry up with the gui-indep work
> hadn't I.
Yup :-)
Jules
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