Re: Vincent_ what is the expected behavior for Frame setting dialog

I filed a bug report (bug 13315). It contains both the bug fixes and
the feature requests. Since the current setup is unusable to set
different values for all four line segments, I think that we can
consider going to the Gnumeric model a bug fix also.

As to whether we should use Gnumeric as model or MS
Office/LibreOffice, I think either is fine with neither having a
strong advantages. I set my preference on Gnumeric mostly because
Abiword is part of the same office suite. Since this is free software,
the person doing the coding will ultimately take the decision.

Regards,

Simon

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ingo Brückl <ib@wupperonline.de> wrote:
>
> Simon Larochelle wrote on Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:14:57 -0400:
>
>> Let me explain more precisely what I meant in the previous e-mail.
>
> Thank you for your explanation. I agree with you.
>
> After playing around a bit, it seems to me that there should be two bug fixes
> and two feature requests.
>
> Bug fix #1: Table and frame dialogs should always reinitialize the preview
> area to the current state. Currently they show the latest un-applied settings
> (if any) instead. (The text box dialog already does ok).
>
> Bug fix #2: When switching box/table/frame with opened dialog, the displayed
> settings should be reset to their default values. (This is, because it is
> AbiWord's current behaviour to apply default settings after switching the
> frame, but the dialog lacks refreshing.) That way, we would have an
> inconvenient but consistent behaviour, and it should be easy to fix.
>
> Feature request #1: When opening a dialog, the settings should reflect the
> current formatting (as shown in the preview area). When switching with opened
> dialog, the settings should stay. (Also, these setting must be applicable
> then.)
>
> Feature request #2: Setting a border should be a well defined three steps
> process.
>
> If we agree on this, I'll file the bug reports if you'll file the feature
> requests. (If you do, please CC: me in the requests.)
>
> Ingo
Received on Thu Apr 5 19:05:44 2012