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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch for KPresenter (Color tool bar Button)
From:       Toshitaka Fujioka <toshitaka () kde ! gr ! jp>
Date:       2001-07-07 12:38:02
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On Saturday 07 July 2001 18:18, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 07 July 2001 12:04, Toshitaka Fujioka wrote:
> > It is unification of user interface.
>
> But that's exactly the problem here.
> In KWord the interface is very unified, because all the toolbar buttons
> show the state of the text under the cursor (bold, italic, _and_ color -
> all the same). Now, I just tried KPresenter, and it does the same ! If you
> select a text object and click "italic", it applies that, then select
> another object, italic will be unchecked in the toolbar button, and if you
> click on the text object again, italic is shown again. So the button shows
> the state of the object. Why should it be different for the color button ?
> To toggle the italic state one would simply click the toolbar button, and
> to change the color, one has to open the submenu or click the button to get
> the dialog. Yes it's one more click than just "applying the last color
> shown on the button" as you suggest, but I think it's much more consistent,
> with all the rest (the rest of the kpresenter buttons, and kword).

I see. I agree.

> > I consider two buttons to be needless in
> > order to open color dialog. Picture icon applies a direct color. Under
> > arrow icon opens color dialog. Even if picture icon doesn't work with
> > KWord.
>
> A button that does nothing is a very bad idea imho !
>
> > No, I think that the same icons should do the same action. Because, I
> > think that a user is confused.
>
> Ok, no configurable behaviour then... But I suggest a unified interface
> among all "state" buttons in all koffice apps, and this would mean, fixing
> KPresenter so that it shows the (background and foreground) color of the
> selected object inside the toolbar buttons.

OK, I agree. I try to fix.

Thank you.
-- 
Toshitaka Fujioka
http://www.kde.org                The K Desktop Environment Project
                                                    fujioka@kde.org
http://www.kde.gr.jp               Japan KDE User's Group
                                                    toshitaka@kde.gr.jp

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