Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] some thoughts on the Sidebar

2013-09-29 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Cor, my time is very sparse as well. Sorry for the delay. Le 26/09/2013 21:05, Cor Nouws a écrit : -- styles and formatting window: possibility of hiding styles This allows document creators to have a set of basic styles which won't be used by the final users. These only see the styles

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LO's styles are more confusing then MSO's (Was Re: some thoughts on the Sidebar)

2013-09-29 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Pedro, Le 19/09/2013 12:02, Pedro a écrit : To be honest the Microsoft approach is much more efficient: when you press the Bold button, the Style is automatically changed to Normal+Bold which allows you to modify the Style for all Bold word at a later stage... Didn't know that. My latest

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LO's styles are more confusing then MSO's (Was Re: some thoughts on the Sidebar)

2013-09-29 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi, Le 18/09/2013 18:38, dollyp a écrit : I think that it is too simplistic to just think that styles are the answer to everything. Well, no. What's simplistic is to think a computer is a glorified typewriter. Unfortunately for the masses and for more than 20 years, *all* software

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LO's styles are more confusing then MSO's (Was Re: some thoughts on the Sidebar)

2013-09-29 Thread Pedro
Hi Jean-François Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote This is interesting, indeed. But I see a problem here: the automatic setting (the bad word is automatic). This won't make styles apparent to users and you may end with users changing bold to italics by hand, just because they miss the style