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List:       quanta-devel
Subject:    Re: [quanta-devel] kdewebdev/quanta
From:       Paulo Moura Guedes <moura () kdewebdev ! org>
Date:       2005-04-04 2:49:03
Message-ID: 200504040349.04075.moura () kdewebdev ! org
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On Monday 04 April 2005 01:29, Jens Herden wrote:
> > this doesn't happens in KWord but it's an exception to the
> > rule (OO, FrontPage, Word, etc).
>
> Why is it wise to do like OOo?

That's not the question, I just wanted to point out that it's not such a 
bizarre and odd behavior.
I chosen this behavior because I think it's much more likely that, if a user 
is in the middle of the word and presses bold, then he wants the word to be 
bold instead of having the same word in a mixed style, which I think is 
absurd in the majority of situations. It's not by chance that the most 
popular applications have chosen this behavior.

> This feature is absolutely contrary to what I am used to and I guess what
> most of the users are used to.

If the most popular applications behave like this, I doubt that users are not 
used to that :)

> This breaks the normal workflow:
>  1. select
>  2. apply
>
> Different behavior of one action is likely to be confusing and I do not see
> that the benefit is big enough to do this here. Especially because a double
> click does select a word.

And what about the scenario of an horizontal alignment action? In my opinion, 
it's a more obvious case where It should be applied to a section, even if 
there is no selection. And the "bold" case is the same IMHO. I had the 
impression that this behavior was a "de facto" standard.

> For my point of view this should be reverted for the sake of consistency
> and usability.

I have no problem with that, I just wish that people had expressed their 
opinions sooner, because this was talked before in the mailing list.

-- 
Paulo Moura Guedes

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