I am using an Asus 10 inch netbook, and disabling the rulers saves a lot of space.I can see more of my document without rulers, but disabling looks better too, which is the reason I turn off rulers on the desktop too. -Glenn
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-design] Hide ruler by default? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:43:32 -0400 > > Hi all, > > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 22:23 +0200, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote: > > > Hy > > > > Personnaly, I always used Rulers (On word 2003, OOo, SYmphony or LibO), to > > place horizontally text or headers/footers. But I think it's not the case of > > the majority . > > I sometimes use the top ruler to set tab type, tab positioning, and > indent positioning in Writer. I do not think the default on/off is that > critical if switching the behavior is easy. Now, I can click Rulers > under View to turn on/off. > > We could be hinting a broader issue, should some of the default > behaviors be confirmed/set at install or first use? If so, which ones > should be included? Could there be recommend selections based on the > type of hardware environment - desktop with big screen, desktop with > small screen, laptop, etc.? > > > > Then, if rulers have to be kept, I think we should try to find a way to have > > them more discrete, because they are not very sexy, they take a big place > > and are not used a lot. It should really be investigated what do you think ? > > Probably not used often, but the amount of space they consume is > relative to the screen size. On some laptops vertical real estate is > lacking but on a desktop with a large monitor it may be an ascetic issue > more than anything else. I could understand if someone wanted different > defaults on different computers. > > > > > Kévin > > > > PS : Scuse, I've speak a horrible English, I know it. > > > > 2011/10/13 Andrew Pullins <[email protected]> > > > > > I never use the rulers, see no need for them in a word processor, or in > > > a presentation. I can not speak for Mirek now but on his blog he talks > > > about > > > the "Citrus UI" hiding them by default. but I can say that in his UI mock > > > ups there are no rulers. here is a link to his blog where he talks about > > > it > > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/citrus-tabs/ > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:41 AM, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 2011/10/13 Glenn de Groot <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello people, > > > > > yesterday I had a pretty good idea IMHO.I would like to see the ruler > > > > > hidden by default in Libre Office 3.5.I know nobody who uses the ruler > > > > (on > > > > > any office application), and I don´t use it either.Microsoft Office, > > > > Google > > > > > Docs and I believe there are others, hide the ruler by default.Try it, > > > go > > > > to > > > > > View and deselect the ruler, it makes Libre Office a lot > > > > > simpler.People > > > > who > > > > > do need the ruler probably know where to find it. > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > -Glenn de Groot > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rulers are useful for direct formatting, I think. Because I never use > > > > direct > > > > formatting I always turn off rulers... ;) > > > > There was a discussion (or more precisely, "an attempt to start a > > > > discussion") about default values on LibO a couple of months ago. Maybe > > > we > > > > need to restart it. > > > > Cheers > > > > Ricardo > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > > > > Problems? > > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > > > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > > deleted > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > > > Problems? > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > deleted > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jay Lozier > [email protected] > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
