On Friday 14 January 2011, Sebastian Sauer wrote: > Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > The current template dialog is said to be the result of usability work, > > though I've never seen the report nor the interaction design. > > I do believe it's a bad idea to display suich a dialog and seems at least > Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org do not do something like that with there > word-processors. > > > We get a lot of negative comments about it -- I remember that Peter > > Sikking (the gimp interaction design maintainer) couldn't keep from > > laughing out loud when he first saw it. > > I don't wonder. I still have to find a single person who likes to have that > template-dialog between you and the app in the first place. Also adding an > "unbreak option" (as in a way to hide it per default) doesn't solve it. > > So, the real question should be; Do you like either to have such a template- > dialog visible per default XOR not for a) Words, b) Tables and c) Stage. From > the feedback I saw so far clear majority prefers to have the blank page there > in both, Words and Tables, per default. Note that for Stage OO.org displays a > wizard while MSPowerpoint starts with a clean presentation too.
No that's not the real question :P. The real question is "what do users want to do when they start an application?" And it's more complicated since we want to have a modicum of consistenty across the suite and Krita is a very difficult subject for this question. > > Apple's office suite also starts with a template browser, > > oha, that's interesting. Are you sure they do if you start direct the > applications (e.g. Numbers) or maybe they only do if you start the container- > application (e.g. KoShell)? If you start the application. And you cannot disable it -- but then, those apps are designed around templates. -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
