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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 7 14:16:11 -0700 2005 ------- Here's a proposal for what the commenting functionality in OpenOffice might look like: First, every comment will have a beginning and ending position associated with it (these are positions in the actual document, not of the comment). These beginning/ending positions are used to highlight the region of text/etc. which the comment applies to, if such highlighting is enabled. Each comment can be represented in up to 2 places: the actual text the comment refers to (highlighted), the margin (next to the line(s) which the comment refers to). All comments can always be viewed in a separate "comment-list" window which the user can open up from a menu item. (so, technically, comments can be represented in 3 places) For the highlighted-text representation, and the margin representation, these representations can have different appearances: highlighted-text options: (Color of highlighting) AND ((Appears as normal highlighting) OR (Appears as "auto spellcheck" style highlighting, underneath the text)) margin options: (Appears only as an unobtrusive indicator which when hovered over displays comment) OR (Text of comment appears in margin) ------------- Secondly, whether appearing in the margin, as highlighted-text, or in a comment-list, the comment can be right-clicked, and a context menu will appear which includes the following items: - Edit comment - Delete comment - Comment properties When a user clicks on comment's properties, a properties window opens up containing the following: - Show in margin? [checkbox] - Highlight corresponding region in document? [checkbox] - Highlighting style: <full highlighting> or <spellcheck-style highlighting> [radio buttons] - Highlighting color [color chooser] These properties can be set individually for each comment. Of course somewhere in the main openoffice settings, the user should be permitted to set the defaults for these settings as they apply to newly created comments. -------------- Lastly, there should be a means of re-defining which region in the original document a given comment is associated with (permitting the possibility of 'none'). Preferably this would be some sort of graphical interface, such as placing small handles on each end of the comment-highlighted region so that the handles could be dragged to change the beginning/ending positions associated w/the comment. -------------- Naturally, as has been mentioned, the comment text needs to be properly line-wrapped, but that I think is obvious -- it is a bug which needs fixing, not a feature which needs adding. I hope these ideas are helpful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
