Format IMage dialog screenshot Re: Label naming (fwd)

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Oh, more thing. I haven't committed screen shots of the new format image
dialog yet. One reason I haven't (apart from laziness) is because I wanted
all these issues settled and to have dialog stable before other platforms
implement it.

In the meantime here is a screenshot of the format image dialog.

http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/FormatImage.png

Martin

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, J.M. Maurer wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:18:07 +0200
>> From: J.M. Maurer <j.m.maurer@student.utwente.nl>
>> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>> Subject: Label naming
>>
>>
>> Just wondering if labels like
>>
>> Set Image Size (from the Format Image dialog)
>
> I think this is appropriate because the image is being scaled.
> "Image Size" sounds more like 'actual size' to me.
>
>> Set Image Name
>
> similarly we are setting image name, not using the filename or a taking a
> name from the image metadata so again this seems appropriate.
>
> "Alt" should not be abbreviated.
> The users interface must leave space for localisation anyway so
> shortening the word is not appropriate, and it also forces users to take
> an extra fraction of a second to understand it.
>
> Actually this should be changed to Description (Alt is based on an
> implementation detail from HMTL).
>
>> Define Image Wrapping
> Define Text Wrapping ???
>
> The labels in this section are very wordy (you will have to forgive the
> hypocrisy of me saying someone else is verbose). A radio list with four
> items in it looks a little bit odd but I guess it is still short enough
> that a drop down list is unnecessary.
>
> I'd change it to
>
> Text Wrapping
> () None
> () Right
> () Left
> () Justify
>
>
>> Define Image Placement
>
> 'Image Placement' doesn't seem perfectly right,
> (or changed to Position,
> the Image bit is almost redundant, I think 'Position' would be enough.
> It might even be better to arrange the dialog with the
>
> I'd change this to something like
>
> Position Image
> () relative to Paragraph
> () relative to Column
> () relative to Page
>
>> Define Main Properties (from the TOC dialog)
>
> this doesn't sound quite right.
>
> Taking a look at how Microsoft Word does this would definately be a very
> good idea. You were definately right, there is definately something off
> and inconsistant about the layout of the dialog but I'm not sure I've
> done the best job of saying exactly what it is or how best to fix it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> - Alan
>
Received on Sat Sep 4 01:14:04 2004