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

Le 2010-12-31 06:32, Christoph Noack a écrit :
> 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?

Thanks. Let's hope that the UX design picks up on this.

Coincidentally, yesterday, I was asked by a music director how to turn 
off the gallery pane. She had turned it on by mistake and could not 
figure how to close it -- not enough cliparts anyway. Bonus for her is 
that I added the gallery extension with more cliparts. She left quite 
happily with the cliparts and knowledge of toggling gallery on/off. :-)

Happy New Year!

Marc


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