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------- Additional comments from christophno...@openoffice.org Thu Nov 12 19:42:43 +0000 2009 ------- Hi PL! For keeping the user informed, let's differentiate two different things: a) Printing via dialog b) Direct printing (keyboard shortcut, toolbar icon) For a), there is no need for a modal dialog since we directly show the print result to the user. As I proposed earlier, the "contextual information bar" may be additionally helpful [1] and non-distracting (for several use cases). For b), there is no way to tell the user what is going on. Here, the modal dialog is one solution (although still a bad solution, since modal dialogs interrupt the workflow). Imagine, a user accidentally selected an area without content and prints via shortcut. He goes to the printer (e.g. the workgroup printer in a business environment) and waits ... until he realizes something is wrong. Here, a message like at [2] would be both helpful and non-distracting. Proposed steps to resolve that issue: 1. Introduce the warning dialog for Calc for OOo 3.3 (for direct printing) 2. Clarify with the application owners if we can agree on a common behavior Assuming that we have an agreement... 3. Implement the contextual information bar in the print dialog 4. Implement dialogs (or an alternative solution) for direct printing [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Printerpullpages/Idea_Collection [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/DirectManipulationSnippets#Mockups_3 And one little demand - please don't talk about stupidity. Everybody may have stress (in the business) or may be distracted (take care children). Little "mistakes" may happen to anybody. Good product design takes this into account. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@framework.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@framework.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
