On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 04:10, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr> [040416 11:00]: > > Use command "Convert", but do not choose not an element is the list, > > rather click on the big "Text" button below the element list. > > > > If you write DocBook, Slides, XHTML, etc, documents, the toolbar > > contains a specialized button which does this. Use tooltips to find > > which one. > > Thanks, that does it. Maybe you can think of a more prominent way to > make this function known. Maybe it should be rather in the context of do > and undo functions than in the formatting context?
Well, from my perspective, when I want to convert some text or an element into another type of XML structure, I think 'convert'. What I'm not used to thinking about is having the 'Text' button be one of the options. This applies to 'Insert' and every other case where the 'Text' button could be used. To me, I am naturally drawn to looking in the element list for something like '#PCDATA' or '#text' (which is what the location bar shows). I now know to pay attention to the Text button's active state, but that was a something I had to be "trained" to do, as opposed to being an intuitive piece of the interface. While we're on the subject, the wildcard menu is somewhat non-intuitive as well. From what I understand from the context help menu, it's for when the document you're editing is invalid. In this case, why not just load all potential elements into to the Element list? It may be just that all my edited documents are tightly constrained, but I don't see the value of a special UI widget to handle this case. -- William -- William
