From kde-usability Thu May 29 21:23:59 2003 From: Nathaniel Turner Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:23:59 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Observations on the new KWord startup dialog X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=105424352203224 On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:05 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:25, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > Why should I get the choice between A4 / Legal / Letter size of paper ? > > In France, you can't buy in a shop Legal size paper only A4 and .... > > i can think of a couple of counter points... each category should remember > the last selected item, so you shouldn't have to fumble more than once. > alternatively, we could offer paper size as an option in the third panel. > but this would be an annoyance for most, and simply removing the size > picking makes it unclear for first timers and annoying for travellers .... I'm glad Charles brought this up, as I was thinking about it too the other day. IMHO, KWord shouldn't have to ask you what paper size to use -- that information can be determined from the locale (LC_PAPER, /etc/papersize). This should at least be used to determine which size is preselected the first time a user see this dialog. As for travellers, when I'm in a foreign country on a foreign computer, I'm probably also going to be printing stuff on a foreign printer, so using the computer's locale to determine paper size would usually be appropriate in this case too. But this isn't really a big deal. And I'm not really being all that constructive, so I'll go away now. =) [Anecdotally, 99% of the time, I just want to create a new blank document in the appropriate paper size for my locale, and I want to do it without having to think much. Hmm... IIRC, this is the default behaviour in some other word processors... ;-) ] -- Nathaniel W. Turner http://www.houseofnate.net/ Tel: +1 508 579 1948 (mobile) _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability