Subject: tabs dialog
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 17:25:13 CST
At 04:28 PM 12/8/99 -0600, Stephen Hack wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 02:24:16PM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> For now though, I'd suggest that we hold off on redesigning that dialog
for
>> a while, and probably not until after 1.0. We'll eventually want to
unify
>> the various platform font dialogs and add formatter support for a bunch of
>> additional character-level properties (like various underscore types,
etc.).
>>
>> The right time to redesign that dialog is when folks are ready to add
>> support for a *bunch* of those more sophisticated properties.
Incrementally
>> redoing that dialog for every single new property is a pain for folks
doing
>> the ports, and confusing for users.
>>
>> In the mean time, there are plenty of:
>>
>> - existing dialogs to finish (zoom, break, paragraph, options) and
>> - new dialogs to add (tabs, insert date and time, page setup, etc.).
>>
>> It's not like we're short on pre-1.0 UI work without this. :-)
>>
>> Paul
>
>I currently have a tabs dialog designed in glade. If you want to see it,
it's
>at
>
> http://argus.itg.uiuc.edu/~shack/abisource
Very cool. Since we're currently trying to stablize the code for an
imminent 0.7.7 release, please hold off on commiting any partial work for
this dialog until after we cut the release.
It'll make a *great* feature for 0.7.8. :-)
Paul
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