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Subject: Re: Words - how to add a way for users to change page styles ?
From: "C. Boemann" <cbo () boemann ! dk>
Date: 2014-10-20 6:14:31
Message-ID: 2263712.PumXB4f6g6 () flapper
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On Monday 20 October 2014 00:35:47 Pierre wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Right now, words implement most features regarding page styles in ODF, but
> our user interface lacks far behind, allowing users to apply only one style
> to the whole document.
> This creates confusion and is a huge feature gap that require mostly user
> interface work.
> Creating such an interface is a complicated work, and I've never been
> satisfied by the LibreOffice nor MS-Word interfaces.
> I've just done a crude proof of concept in words showing how I think we
> could implement page styles. The crudeness makes the screen shots harder to
> understand, but I only want to show the «spirit » of the idea.
>
> Between each page, I add in the «empty » gray area the page style names.
> A double click on a page style name prompt you for the page style change
> (the hack implements this with a rude QInputDialog…), could offer you to
> introduce a page break… and you're done.
>
> This seems to me user friendlier than LibreOffice way of doing it (Insert >
> Manual Break, then choose to change the page style… and if you want to
> change a style afterwards, right click and get lost in paragraph
> properties)
>
> So attached to this mail is a simple screenshot of what this could look
> like… I won't share the hack code right now, it's broken and beyond
> redemption :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Pierre
there was some Toulouse student work done in the words-pagelayout-toulouse
branch
it features a page layout tool which is supposed to offer direct manipulation
of page layout
I agree nither the LibreOffice nor MS-Word interfaces are shining examples of
good ui
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