What's the difference from Ribbon UI from users' perspective? Except one is vertical and another is horizontal.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM, C. Boemann <c...@boemann.dk> wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 November 2012 22:05:48 Sven Langkamp wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I have been discussing this on IRC with boemann and ingwa and to clear >>> things up I did write it down. >>> >>> This a proposal for a new UI for our tool docker/box UI. Proposal can >>> be found here: http://depot.tu-dortmund.de/get/r6n9u >>> >>> This is just a thing that I would like to see in Words/Stage. Might >>> even be that I'm too much thinking as a developer there ;) >>> Would be interesting to hear what you think about. >>> >> Thanks a lot - I saw it earlier today so I've had time to think a bit >> >> There are many things about it I like, which is why I asked you to actually >> write it down. >> >> However I think there is a big downside to what you are describing. The user >> can shift tool by double clicking and that means the tool inside a workspace >> will change, and without a toolbox we have a problem > > I don't think this is a problem we already can almost handle that. > When you double click onto a shape we go to the shape specific tool > and you leave it by double clicking outside the shape. No toolbox is > needed to change out of or into the tool. > >> Also you say the user should be able to create new workspaces, well for that >> to work the user would need to be able to select the tool. > > Shouldn't be to hard to fix that e.g. we could show the toolbox and > the user could simply hide it. > >> Also the closing and opening of dockers gave us problems in the past. This >> may >> work for krita where workspaces are much more long lived. In words, stage, >> sheets the user will be changing workspace much more frequently. > > More frequently, but not that often. Compared to the alternative of > manually opening and closing dockers it's still much better. > >> So I was thinking much of a mix between what we have now and what you >> suggest. Actually just a new "skin" to the current behavior. But a new skin >> that will free up vertical space allowing us to reintroduced the disabled >> tools. >> >> Thinking some more..and thanks again for taking the time to describe it >> >> _______________________________________________ >> calligra-devel mailing list >> calligra-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
