Hi,
Joe Smith schrieb:
*Description*
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Removing some unnecessary display options. These options were
historically added to very early office versions due to at that time
limited ressources (16bit times). These options were switched off in
the configuration for a long time. The following features are affected:
- Picture Placeholders: Force picture objects to show an empty frame
with the default 'could-not-access-picture' icon in it
- Contour mode: Thick lines are suppressed, they are just replaced
with hairlines
- Text Placeholders: The text is not painted but a crossed-out
hairline box for each text portion
- Line Contour Only: The fill is suppressed (with exception handling
when the object has no outline)
They are not unnecessary. With the button "Picture Placeholder" you can
very quick and easily see, to which file a picture is linked. In Writer
you have the picture property dialog to look what file it is, but in
Draw or Impress you have no way to see what file is used. Especially
during creating the document, if you have slightly different versions of
your pictures, it is useful to see with a click what file it is. Another
use of the button is to see, whether something is behind the picture and
covered by the picture.
With the "Text Placeholers" and the "LineContour Only" button, you can
easily see the borders of your object. That is useful for those objects,
which have an invisible border line.
If you remove that buttons, there should be another method to get that
informations quick and easily.
> ...
*Specification URL*
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http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/49524/ReCo.odt
I cannot tell from the spec: will the features be gone entirely, or only
removed from the Tools > Options > OOo Draw > View dialog?
I hope they will not be removed entirely. Access from the Tools >
Options ... dialog is not very useful, but access from the toolbar is.
There are times when, for visibility while working, that it can be
helpful to show only outlines. From the toolbar, that can be turned
on/off easily while working.
I agree that they are not necessary as setting in Tools > Options but I
too think, that they are useful in the toolbar.
kind regards
Regina
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