Subject: Re: list dialog (was Re: Outstanding patches)
From: Tim LaDuca (tjl@141.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 16:36:32 CDT
I remembered some sort of discussion like you mention, but I too thought
this new patch was to be some kind of replacement for the current lists
dialog which seemed kind of strange to me and certainly confusing. I had
to dig up the appropriate thread. Here it is.
http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/June/0059.html
and a reply to that post goes into more detail.
http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/June/0087.html
Hope that helps clear things up.
Cheers,
Tim
On 24 Aug 2001 14:26:26 -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 04:18 PM 8/21/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > I'm now not willing to let our Modeless Lists dialog go without
> >a lot of convincing. Having just used the Word 2000 dialog, I think our
> >Lists UI is much nicer and easier to use, including the Modeless Lists
> >dialog.
>
> Martin,
>
> I know you're very proud of your current dialog, and we all appreciate the
> many hours of hard work you did to create it. However, I don't see the
> connection here. To date, I haven't heard anyone ask you to let that work
> go.
>
> How familiar are you with the approach Joaquín was taking? At this point, I
> can't even see screen shots, much less play with running code, and I'd like
> to. (That's why I asked for it.) Do you mean to discourage Joaquín from
> getting his work in shape so the rest of us can see it, and judge it on its
> own merits? If so, please don't.
>
> IIRC, there was an evolving consensus earlier this year that it'd be nice to
> have a total of two dialogs for manipulating lists:
>
> - an ultra-simple all-XP gallery of bullet/number choices, AND
> - a more powerful full-strength customization dialog.
>
> The first would give people a quick, customizable set of choices, so if they
> see a preview they like, they can just select it and move on. Or, if they
> want anything else, they could click through to a more powerful dialog (like
> you've already implemented) where they could tweak to their heart's content.
>
> Ideally, those customizations could be assigned to one of the preview panes
> in the first dialog, so that the next time you want to format another list,
> you could quickly and easily reuse your prior work.
>
> AFAIK, that's the kind of thing Joaquín was working on, and I, for one,
> would love to see how something like that might work. Are you suggesting
> that we shouldn't even consider such an approach? If so, why?
>
> Paul,
> very puzzled
>
>
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