Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic, SmallCaps, and the like, accessed via the EditText

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: Another issue is that the EditText Style menu could become very crowded. I can imagine a menu containing the last 10 styles used only. The last menu item would launch a dialog with a list view (or a tree view) or all available menu. It'd be nice to be able to define

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:57:40AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic,

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Heck
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:57:40AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: > There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. > It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid > of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like > Italic, SmallCaps, and the like, accessed via the

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: Another issue is that the Edit>Text Style menu could become very crowded. I can imagine a menu containing the last 10 styles used only. The last menu item would launch a dialog with a list view (or a tree view) or all available menu. It'd be nice to be able to define

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:57:40AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It > really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it > in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic,

Re: Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Heck
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:57:40AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character

Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic, SmallCaps, and the like, accessed via the EditText Styles menu, rather

Text Settings Dialog [Beyond 1.5]

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic, SmallCaps, and the like, accessed via the Edit>Text Styles menu,