Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Gallery -- toggle off/on

Hi Marc,

some additional remarks to those by Regina (Thanks!). The reason for not
having a "x"-button to close some of the window is, that the source code
and the interaction concepts are very old. Just look at the "selection"
decoration - looks quite dated ... In comparison, the task panes in
Impress (e.g. Slide Format Selection) are much more up to date and thus
more flexible.

But some improvements concerning task panes / windows / ... are in
progress at Oracle. But it is hard to align the behavior of all of them.

You may have noticed (or your students) that the functions to toggle the
visibility of those windows is spread among different menus (problem:
visibility issue vs. functionality issue), that they behave different
(missing 'x', docking/undocking), that they look different (old vs. new
decorators), that they are used differently (task panes for Impress
only).

Let's sum it up that way - there is plenty to do for both the devs and
the UX design team ;-)

Cheers,
Christoph


Am Montag, den 27.12.2010, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré:
> Yes you are right. One looses sight that it is a docked window when
> it 
> appears as a tool window as well. If you click through all of the
> tools, 
> Gallery is the only tool where there is no exit button. Maybe it
> should 
> then be treated in the same way? 


-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org
Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/
*** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***