From koffice-devel Sun Aug 22 12:51:57 2010 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:51:57 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Usability Topics Message-Id: <201008221451.57387.boud () valdyas ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=128248156516401 On Saturday 21 August 2010, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi all, > now that I was welcomed again warmly, I am eager to start working with you. > > First of all, we need to identify the topics/issues we will work on. If there > are some which you have already identified but not found a solution for yet, > please tell me about them and who will be the ideal people to discuss them > with. > > Otherwise, here are two rather general topics Inge and me have identified in > Essen: > > 1. The "Jumping interface". > This behavior is caused by the fact that some dockers are automatically shown > or hidden based on the currently selected tool / shape. Now if these dockers > are positioned above others that are always visible, the latter "jump" up and > down in the right pane, causing confusion for the user. We have to find ways > to automatically show/hide those dockers while minimizing the amount of > overall changes in the UI. For Krita, I'm trying to build a tool option widget dock, a bit like Photoshop has for its palettes. But there are technical problems there -- dockers don't use the ordinary Qt drag-and-drop mechanism. if the tool option dockers are popups like Krita's brush settings popup, we'd have haved on jumping a lot. Also, maybe we should consider going back to having a fixed tool docker that receives the option widgets, instead of separate dockers for every tool. Tools with more than one widget can then show those in a vertical layout or in tabs. Right now, with some tools showing up on top, and some down at the bottom, the situation is not nice. -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel