From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sat Feb 28 2004 - 09:13:34 EST
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 05:19, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> Hmm this dialog also doesn't expose all the functionality of
>> our feature.
>
> You missed my point entirely...
>
> A giant complex dialogue that you'd need a doctorate in in order to be
> able to use effectively is not the way forward. You seem to be
> forgetting the target audience for AbiWord, the technically illiterate.
>
> The vast majority of Word Processor users would happily opt for a
> sensible prefabricated style for a TOC rather than define their own.
>
Right. So when they press "insert Table of Cotents" a nicely formatted
Table of Contents with sane defaults instantly appears in their document.
> The whole point is that the average user won't need to see that. From
> my mockup, that would be shown by a 'Custom Style' dialogue - is that a
> cascading dialogue; a dialogue produced from within another dialogue?
>
> Or put that in an 'advanced' tab - same effect, getting the advanced
> options out of the initial dialogue as I advocated in the email
> preceeding the mockup. That's definitely the way foward instead of
> squeezing everything into a single dialogue.
>
> Just imagine my mockup with an 'advanced' tab. Perhaps I should have
> done the second dialogue along with the mockup but I assumed [1] that in
> your mind you'd recognise and shift all the uncontained style stuff into
> another dialogue/tab without a visual prompt. ;)
>
> [1] "Assumption is the mother of all f... ups"
> --
The devil is in the details. If jump into this battle you gotta go all the
way and not just wave your hands....
I personally like the idea of allowing a drop down list to choose which
level to edit, something like hub's mockups.
Martin
> - Charlie
>
> Charles Goodwin <charlie_at_xwt.org>
> Online @ http://www.charlietech.com
>
>
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