On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Boris Goldowsky wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:05:51 -0500 > From: Boris Goldowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Stock Page Setup [was Re: [Usability] Stock Items: forming > a plan of sorts] > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:24 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > > I think abiword has an icon for page setup, with a picture of a page > > and printer on it (but I dont have abiword on this machine so I'm not > > sure). > > Yes, it appears to be identical to the Print icon.
Okay, now I'm on a machine with abiword and it seems I was mentally combining the Properties icon (page+spanner) with the printer icon to imagine a page+printer icon for page setup. > >From the usability perspective, I've never really understood why 'Page > Setup' exists. Too many options. There is just too much going on to put it in the general preferences. > Why aren't all the printing-related settings in the > Print dialog (for Abiword, at least some are duplicated there)? Or if a > word processor needs more control of formatting than the print dialog > has, wouldn't those go into a Format - Page or the like. > > After writing that, I note that Abiword's 'File - Page Setup' is in fact > the same dialog that you get from 'Format - Document'. OpenOffice has > no Page Setup. Gedit has one, and it looks to me like things I would > expect to be in Preferences. There may be a better way of doing it but in this case I'm happy enough to work with what is there for now. Sincerely Alan Horkan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
