Subject: Re: pruning "redundant" properties while editing
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 16:21:15 CST
At 04:57 PM 3/15/01 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
>>Even if it were desirable, I see no good way for the UI to also say:
>>
>> - make this selection the default size (step 2a)
>
>If you click on the combobox, you get a list of numbers. Why not add
"Default"
>to the numbers? Of course, if you do this to the fonts, someone might have a
>font named "Default", which will be confusing.
It's worse than that. We have this problem for *every* property:
- the control-B shortcut to toggle bold on and off
- inter-line spacing on the toolbar
- left paragraph margin on the ruler
- and on and on
We need a different answer entirely.
Paul
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