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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KPresenter usability review.
From:       Alan Horkan <horkana () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date:       2005-09-27 0:02:25
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.58L0.0509270044240.75814 () salmon ! maths ! tcd ! ie
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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Thomas Zander wrote:

...

> Cleanups/misc:
> ==============
> * In View you can turn on 'help lines'. After doing so you can drag these
> out from the ruler, much like rulers do in kivio or photoshop.
> Unfortunately they are entirely unhelpful and should either be rewritten
> or removed.
> They should allow snapping to when you drag an object around, and they
> should snap to center of pages and center of objects when dragging the
> help lines.

> Additionally it would help to rename them to 'guides' and draw them in a
> different color instead of the outline they are now.

my first reaction was to suggest calling them guides like everyone else
does.

> * insert => file   should be renamed to 'presentation from file'

Seems a bit verbose, and although it is a bit more specfic it hardly
seems worth changing.  Also Insert from File could be a feature
you might want to have consistently in other Koffice applications.

> * rename arrow 'start'/'end' to 'left'/'right' since this causes confusion
> in that dragging from right to left now means that the start is actually
> the end...

Aren't you going to be out of luck either way when user move the lines
around?  Left, Right wont make much sense with a Vertical line either.
Six of one half dozen of the other, and maybe not worth changing

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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