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------- Additional comments from christophno...@openoffice.org Fri Nov 13 22:46:07 +0000 2009 ------- @PL: You are right that the dialog is the only UI we _currently_ have to offer. So no change in what we've discussed so far. But, the problem is quite usual... To explain it a bit more abstract, let's have a look at the "10 Levels of Automation of Decision and Action Selection" by Sheridan and Verplank used for automated system like computers [1]. The modal dialog is more or less Level 2 (without even providing alternatives), my the mockups I referred to are rather Level 6. Example: The user has a spreadsheet with information, although he currently selected an empty sheet. He presses the toolbar icon "Print File Directly" and the information bar (see mockup link in a previous comment) pops up for 15 seconds, offering an explanation and the following choices: Print the whole document (thus, the other sheets), open the print dialog (to manually select the range) or to cancel. If the user does not react, simply cancel and remove the information bar. Basically, he is not forced to do anything - but we also give him some choices. In OOo, we mostly use levels 2 ... 3 for the interaction which could be solved by 2 ... 7 - and that why some users usually complain about the high effort in OOo in comparison with other software. But as I said, just for discussion - without questioning the current "modal dialog" decision. [1] Page 12 (sorry, I didn't find a better resource available for free) http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-422Spring2004/08548071-B890-4BF8-9AE0-1A0AA539738C/0/020504hmancenter.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
