Hi Björn, all! Am Samstag, den 29.01.2011, 20:17 +0100 schrieb Björn Balazs: > Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011, 20:05:06 schrieb Christoph Noack: > > Cool! Now, we really need Björn and you talking to the community via the > > blog ... [...] > > Björn, Paulo, do you both have a blog? > > I do - see my footer (not being an utterly active writer though). What needs > to happen to get my blog aggreated to http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ > ??? (Ok, next to me starting to blog about LibO :))
Great! I remember ... I didn't know where to start, so I've forwarded the request to Florian to add OpenUsability.org. Or should the other one be added as well? [...] > > The current advantage: all tasks are handled via the same interface / > > workflow. So if you know how to do, it is efficient to apply the > > available knowledge for a variety of field types. The problem the wizard > > tries to address (in my understanding), is to address less experienced > > people who want to work with more difficult field types. Here, the > > correct result is more important than the number of steps. > > I actually disagree with your analysis here. The current appraoch is neither > fish nor flesh. Neither the process of selecting a certain field not the > interface to configure it are optimized, consistent or even transparent. Of course, optimization is always right :-) What luck that I've primarily wrote "advantage: all tasks are handled via the same interface / workflow" - and did not consider it perfect. Phew ;-))) > Splitting this up into a two step: 1. Wizard to select the field and 2. > Provide optimized interfaces for configuration of the different fields will > address more and less experienced users in the same way, because it will > provide a consistent and transperent way to select the field you need and a > suitable interface to configure it. It does not even need to be more steps > than before - they only need to be presented in a much clearer manner. > > Hopefully tomorrow I will find the time to illustrate my words. That would be great! [...] Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
