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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kword default look
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-03-23 22:02:11
Message-ID: 56a746380903231502u83d2257p8a259ffcfeb69150 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/3/23 Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>:
> Hi,
>
> as a recent thread here showed, kword looks quite unfinished in its initial
> startup. For the release I think a trick most koffice apps use is wanted to fix
> this.
> I came up with the following default setup; what do you guys think about that?
>
>  http://imagebin.ca/view/2asgnztB.html
>
> Ideas on what you think looks better appreciated, I'll even look at them :P
>
> Next to that, I'd love to hear from people how to
> a) set this as a default and where to put code to do the rc file trick.
> b) how to change the default shapes I see in the shapes docker.

Hi
I'll not comment on problems existing because of shortcomings of the XMLGUI...

So if we are at fine-tuning things, to just mention relatively simple ones:
1. Fit Page Width combo is present in two places: toolbar and the statusbar
2. The width of the sidebar can be decreased by implementing the
layout's spacing a bit more carefully.
3. An easy one: ask someone nontechnical what "Tool options" means;
4. Since there are named tabs, I believe the titles are not necessary
on the dockers (possible shortcoming of the docking API is another
story). Moreover "Styles" label is used in 3 places...
5. Bold/Italic/etc. icons are hard to read (it's gray-on-gray
problem), moreover these seem to be overdesigned. A kind request to
the Oxygen Team: let's consider having them black which is the default
QPalette::WindowText color, without reinventing the wheel. I consider
any such issue as rather important, yet easy to fix in early enough.
6. "Page x/y" -> "Page x of y" in the statusbar

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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