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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Don't read!
From:       Dirk Foersterling <milliByte () gmx ! net>
Date:       2000-06-10 16:04:50
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On Saturday 10.06.2000 Marko Samastur (markos@elite.org) wrote:

> > > > Method 1) (kword)
> > >
> > > My vote (for what's worth)
> 
> It gives the best visual hint on what will be scrolled and what won't
> be. It certainly wastes a little bit of screen estate (or better yet,
> can waste if there's no idea how to use that place), but it's little
> enough that I don't care.

... I would say that unusable pieces of rulers (above and left from
scrollbars) are the same waste as clear areas. In kword, the rulers are
empty nearby the scrollbars, so this method is very much the same like
method 3.

> 
> > > > Method 2) (kpresenter)
> > >
> > > Nope.
> 
> According to picture, if you scroll enough to the right or down, ruler
> could disappear. I presume this doesn't really happen, but scrollbar
> that includes area populated by a ruler suggest that to me.

Did you use kpresenter? I did for some weeks. The rulers _are_ going to
be scrolled with the document area if you use the scrollbars.
(More exactly, the vertical ruler only exists on the 'current' page, so
if your window is big enough you will never have one big ruler going
from the top to the bottom of the drawing area.)

This means that the ruler is accompanying the document and not the
application window or some paper format.

I would say that the method of placing scrollbars and rulers would
depend on the meaning of the marks on the scrollbars.

If you want to present a specific and exact document size such as a
paper size or something like that, I would go for method 1.

If you would provide rulers for orientation within the document or for
variable sizes like screen sizes, I would use method 2.

  -dirk

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