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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug 52001: text color toolbar button does not behave as expected
From:       Sven Langkamp <longamp () reallygood ! de>
Date:       2004-10-27 14:17:41
Message-ID: 200410271617.41624.longamp () reallygood ! de
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:37, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:41, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have implemented the behavior suggested in wish 52001(currently only
> > for KWord) Even though I don't know if this behavior is better concerning
> > consistency and usability. What do you think?
>
> Yeah, I have changed my mind about this. I thought it would be more
> consistent if the color button would work like all other text-formatting
> toolbar elements (the font name combo, font size combo, bold button etc.
> all show the formatting of the text in front of the cursor, so I made the
> color button do the same). But enough people requested that it works
> differently (remembering the last selected color, to be able to apply that
> quickly, and that means not showing the formatting of the text at the
> cursor... I guess that's because it's easy enough to see what color has the
> text at the cursor; unlike e.g. font size).
>
> So, OK from me. But you probably need to remove a similar line from
> kpresenter too.
It applies also to KPresenter, KSpread and Kivio.

As the button is also used for line and fill color, should the behavior the 
same for all or should the line and fill color buttons behave the old way?
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