Hi Christoph, Rick, all Thank you, Christoph! I'll include these buttons in the mockup.
Rick, this is probably a great idea. I personally would like it a lot! Although, It may implicates some language problems, like "how to count" words in different languages, or even performance problems. Imagine the delay to count each word when you past (or delete) a long text once. Of course, i'm speculating about it. The real problems may be different, but I'm sure it'll require a wide work. We could join every ideas about the Status Bar change in a wiki page to make it easier to know the current progress. I'm purposing make the changes in small steps (or versions), where each step could be a "section" in the page, so the developers can follow these steps in a efficient way. I think I'll be able to create the page tonight, but all are invited to join. By the way, I did a HTML mockup, so will be simple to purpuse ideas and see them "implemented". For now it's just CSS working, but I think we could include some javascript (with jQuery) to make it interactive, eg. to create functional menus. I can't upload it now because the FTP is blocked at university. Someone know a easy way to upload the HTML code and change it in a collaborative way (Like Etherpad or Google Docs was to text)? I'll try to find a solution before upload it to wiki (that seems to be the hardest way to work on it). Regards ~Paulo -- Paulo José O. Amaro Estudante de Ciência da Computação / UFSJ Webdesigner / Linked E.J. Blogueiro / CasaTwain.com 2011/3/13 Rick Hansson <[email protected]> > Hi, > > > I like this new grouping, Paulo. It make sense. > > > Also I would prefer to have most of the items in the status bar turned off. > The user should decide what goes in there. I would love to see a word count > for example. This has probably been discussed before (I'm new here), so in > that case ignore it. > > > Rick > > 2011/3/12 Paulo José <[email protected]> > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm thinking about changing the LibreOffice Writer's Status Bar. Just a > > little bit. :-P > > > > My motivation was the feeling of confusion that actually appear > sometimes, > > making me think about a new way to organize that information. > > > > I tried to capture some initial thinkings about the status bar, pointing > > its issues. I perceived we can categorize its information in Page, > Document > > and Selection related: > > > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Current-libreoffice-writer-statusbar.png > > > > For more information about the options of Writer's Status Bar, see the > > LibreOffice's wiki page [1]. > > > > As you can see, there's some same category's information in different > > places. An issue, by example, it's when the user wanna know the page > number > > when scrolling the page, so it needs look at the left side, while > scrolling > > at the right side of screen. > > > > I tried to achieve a better way to organize these informations, keeping a > > logical relationship between them. In my proposal, the Document > information > > stay in the left site, the Page information on the right side and the > > Selection information stay closer to the content, in the center. Also an > > order that I tried to keep is "Edition" items before "Only-Information" > > items. This is my proposal: > > > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:New-libreoffice-writer-statusbar-v1.png > > > > I'd like to hear what you think about it. It's just one of my ideas > > concerning the Status Bar, including changing the Insert and Selection > Mode > > text to icons, and evencreating a dynamic status bar, integrated with > > context toolbars. > > > > But in small steps we walk longer, does not? :-) By now, I think we could > > just reorganize the Status Bar and improve its communicability. :-) > > > > Regards, > > ~Paulo > > > > [1] - http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Status_Bar > > > > -- > > Paulo José O. Amaro > > Computer Science Student > > Federal University of São João del-Rei > > WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior > > Blogger / casatwain.com > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
