Hi Michael, cool, looks like a _very_ promising start :-)
Am Dienstag, den 14.06.2011, 11:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi guys, > > I have to task switch for a week or so now, so I just dumped my latest > (hackish) re-hash of the style preview / selection pane I was working on > here (click the navigator paint-can): > > http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-06-14-style-preview.diff > > It looks like this: > > http://people.gnome.org/~michael/images/2011-06-14-style-preview.png Okay, so at the moment it is "just" a matrix like preview in a separate window. Each of the previews seems to render the name of the style in 100% size, centered. Correct? > I had a few questions: > > a) ux guys - would you like a side-bar a bit like this ? > could we make that a 'mode' of the style navigator ? > + what interaction modes would work well here: > mouse-over style preview ? Some QuickThoughts (tm): * Toolbar Drop-Down for Paragraph Styles (m x n matrix instead of a plain list) * Paragraph Styles in the Stylist (preview for each list entry, for all modes but hierarchical view) * Character Styles in the Stylist (preview for each list entry, for all modes but hierarchical view) Of course, the devil is in the details - we want to keep this list manageable (size, number of items), the styles (easily) editable, the stuff accessible (keyboard nav etc.). So, these thoughts are a start, I think. > + context specific style/palette adaption ? Mmh, what do you have in mind - we already have some (more or less working) context specific context adaptations in the Stylist. > > b) any more thoughts on that ? > > c) since this is essentially a stolen (re-factored) 'preview' > widget from the existing 'style' dialog - I wondered ... > are there other easy-to-steal preview widgets that we can > re-use to make applying these things easier ? > [ perhaps border selectors ? ]. Mmh, don't know whether this fits technically (we'll need that anyway, soon *g*), but how about the new toolbar drop-down selectors in Impress. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnfZlYU0SNc (interesting part starts exactly at minute one). Furthermore, the slide sorter preview, or the master slide preview might be other candidates. > d) Do we have an enterprising hacker wanting to play with > creating a more attractive navigator / style pane here? > + it is slightly complicated due to the shared > nature of sfx's style code between all components > > Thoughts ? Hackers? :-) Cheers, Christoph _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
