Hi Riku, Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 20:43 schrieb Riku Leino: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > OK, sorry, I thought you wanted to add a check box to each tab or each > > item. But i still can't see what would be won. The user would always need > > to take care if "general" or "document" is selected. Having both options > > clearly separated and clearly named/documented, is most likely less > > confusing and "cleaner" IMHO. > > Exactly, I suppose i didn't make this clear enough. My suggestion was just > to make those Craig Ringer's static warnings have some function. There > would still be these two different preferences but one could also apply > changes to both by only editing a setting in one place. > > Think about a situation. If you want to make the default font for a text > frame to Adobe Caslon from Times New Roman. > > 1. You have a document open where you'd like to apply this change. > > 2. You'll need to go to the "Document Setup" and there change the font. > --> applies only to the current document > > 3. You'll then need to go to the "Preferences" and make the exactly same > change.
At this point, I would ask if this does reflect the reality of most workflows. I suspect the answer is no, unless one only works for one company with a few standard fonts, and in this case, the most used font would be chosen in general settings. The advantage of separating document and general prefs is flexibility plus clear separation. > > With my suggestion 2. and 3 can be made to a single step. > > 2 b) You only need to go to the "Document Setup" where you do the change > and then click on the "Warning Check box" which says "Apply also to the > General Preferences" and now clicking ok will also apply this new change in > General Prefs. > > Here's the win. User only needs to do things in one place for minor changes > like this and won't get annoyed when he starts to work on a new doc and > notices that he forgot the step 3 originally and he now must do the steps > 2. and 3. again. To be honest, I don't see a win here. See above and my previous posting. I think the likeliness of confusing both settings and messing things up is bigger in the setup you suggest. But then, this is only my personal opinion. I can live with both options :) Cheers, Christoph
