Re: User interface issues

2011-08-23 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 23 August 2011 Aug, Jan Hambrecht wrote: > On 23.08.2011 10:43, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > * Selecting a shape is quite difficult. Depending on the active tool, a > > click can select a shape, manipulate a shape or do nothing. One proposal is > > to show a border on hover that when

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-23 Thread Jan Hambrecht
On 23.08.2011 10:43, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: * Selecting a shape is quite difficult. Depending on the active tool, a click can select a shape, manipulate a shape or do nothing. One proposal is to show a border on hover that when clicked will always select the shape and that will allow basic ma

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-23 Thread C. Boemann
On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:43:14 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > Okay... This is what I came up with for a proposal to send to Celeste. Any > comments? > > --- > > Calligra Season of Usability Project Proposal > > As asked, here's a short writeup of what I think Calligra really needs

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-23 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
Okay... This is what I came up with for a proposal to send to Celeste. Any comments? --- Calligra Season of Usability Project Proposal As asked, here's a short writeup of what I think Calligra really needs now in terms of usability work. First what we don't need: a study that e

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:52:13 +0200, todd rme wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: Different types of tools aren't distinguishable Some of our tools in the toolbox are primarily used to create new data, e.g.

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:18:48 +0200, Elvis Stansvik wrote: 2011/8/12 C. Boemann : On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no m

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Cyrille Berger Skott
On Friday 12 August 2011, C. Boemann wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > > > A suggestion also would be to do like for plasma widgets, and when the > > > user overlay a shape, it shows the border, if he cl

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On 12 August 2011 15:02, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >> For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is selected, >> clicking inside the shape should activate the text tool without any extra >> click (and show, for movable text sha

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, C. Boemann wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > > > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is > >

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Elvis Stansvik
2011/8/12 C. Boemann : > On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >> On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: >> > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >> > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is >> > > selected, clicking insid

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread C. Boemann
On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is > > > selected, clicking inside the shape should activate t

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is selected, > > clicking inside the shape should activate the text tool without any extra > > click (and show, for movable t

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Cyrille Berger Skott
On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is selected, > clicking inside the shape should activate the text tool without any extra > click (and show, for movable text shapes) a big border indicating where to > click to move. A su

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-12 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Wednesday 10 August 2011 Aug, Inge Wallin wrote: > I would prefer if we could have this discussion independently of > implementation details. Well, actually, many of your comments suggest an implementation "fix" to me -- more than a discussion on whether the issues are valid or not :-) >

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-11 Thread Cyrille Berger Skott
On Wednesday 10 August 2011, Inge Wallin wrote: > Selection of shapes vs content > - > > We have now a very general concept of shapes and tools. If the user clicks > on a shape, it gets selected, and (most of the time) the default tool is > activated. Using

Re: User interface issues

2011-08-11 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: > > Selection of shapes vs content > - > > 1. Sometimes it's obvious that the user wants to start changing the contents > rather than the shape itself when he clicks.  The most glaring example is the > a s