From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 14:26:39 EDT
I've since rewritten the dialog. Plus it's in nice
glade format, so others can fix it up quickly.
That sxcreenshot is quite out of date.
Dom
--- Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, ericzen wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:00:41 -0500
> > From: ericzen <ericzen@ez-net.com>
> > To: stro@gnomedesktop.org,
> abiword-dev@abisource.com,
> > abiword-user@abisource.com, lwn@lwn.net,
> niscenus@roogroup.com
> > Subject: AbiWord Weekly News #157 (2003, week 33)
> released
> >
> > Issue #157 has been released
> >
> > Layfolk here: http://www.abisource.com/news
> > Community reporters here:
>
http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2003/awn157.phtml
> >
> >
> > This week in development
>
> I notice the screenshot of the OTS dialog in this
> weeks news.
> http://libots.sourceforge.net/abiword-ots.png
>
> Generally it helps to size things consitantly to
> roughly a 3:4 ratio
> which is proportianl to the display size and as a
> result slightly more
> aesthetically pleasing.
>
> Really small dialogs like the one shown look quite
> inconsistant.
>
> Summarizing by percent is not very informative or
> user friendly. It might
> be better to show the number of pages and words in
> the document and give a
> rough estimate of how long the summary will be in
> words or pages. My
> guess is most users want a one page summary.
>
> Here is a copy of the Auto Summarizer dialog from
> Microsoft Word 97,
> perhaps it will give you some ideas.
>
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/ui/msword97-tools_autosummarize001.png
>
> Hope that this information will be of use, I will
> file bug reports by
> request.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
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