On Monday 20 October 2014 00:35:47 Pierre wrote: > Hi all > > Right now, words implement most features regarding page styles in ODF, but > our user interface lacks far behind, allowing users to apply only one style > to the whole document. > This creates confusion and is a huge feature gap that require mostly user > interface work. > Creating such an interface is a complicated work, and I've never been > satisfied by the LibreOffice nor MS-Word interfaces. > I've just done a crude proof of concept in words showing how I think we > could implement page styles. The crudeness makes the screen shots harder to > understand, but I only want to show the «spirit» of the idea. > > Between each page, I add in the «empty» gray area the page style names. > A double click on a page style name prompt you for the page style change > (the hack implements this with a rude QInputDialogâ¦), could offer you to > introduce a page break⦠and you're done. > > This seems to me user friendlier than LibreOffice way of doing it (Insert > > Manual Break, then choose to change the page style⦠and if you want to > change a style afterwards, right click and get lost in paragraph > properties) > > So attached to this mail is a simple screenshot of what this could look > like⦠I won't share the hack code right now, it's broken and beyond > redemption :) > > Thanks > > Pierre there was some Toulouse student work done in the words-pagelayout-toulouse branch
it features a page layout tool which is supposed to offer direct manipulation of page layout I agree nither the LibreOffice nor MS-Word interfaces are shining examples of good ui _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
