From koffice-devel  Mon Nov 12 10:25:18 2001
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:25:18 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: frame placement (in KWord)
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:03:55AM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> This is indeed a completely different solution to this problem, which obv=
iously
> provides a working solution, but quite different. I don't care much eithe=
r way,
> but Laurent's way is coded and in CVS, which gives it a good advantage ;)
> I'd rather see us move on to bugfixes and missing features, in the end th=
at's
> what counts much more than how the user does something, as long as he
> can do it (feature being present), and in a reasonably easy way.=20

Ok, agreed.

> > ps. you might want to check how people create frames with the current a=
pprouch,=20
> > about all people I watched creating a frame first placed it _very_ roug=
hly how
> > they wanted it and then moved/sized it to the final position Which IMO =
is natural.
>=20
> I think you're talking about the DTP-like non-inline frames, and I agree =
for that
> case. I don't think this applies to inline frames - and btw your idea of =
using
> the current cursor position slightly contradicts the above "first positin=
ing roughly,
> then moving" (there's nothing "rough" about the cursor position....)
Depends on a number of things, placing an inline picture will probably posi=
tion the picture in
a size you don't want. Meaning you have to adjust it.=20

--=20
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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