Hi,
Joe Smith wrote:
I've started to see these messages on the features announce list (via
Gmane). This seems like a good thing, but I have some questions:
1) Is there any mechanism for feedback on these features?
None seem to have any issue number; are they supposed to be tracked
through the CWS name? If so, is there a feedback channel there?
there is a Spec Doc at
http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/sd.insertbackground.odt
In that doc, the issue number is given as:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82911
I assume we use this mailing list for feedback
2) Do these features go through any UX process? Perhaps it is all internal.
this feature was submitted from an "external" OOo coder as a patch. I
hope however that the internal QA tests took place and that the feature
made it alright through those tests.
Getting feedback from a wide an audience as possible seems like a good
way to go. It is so hard to change any UI design after the fact.
In the case of this specific feature:
Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides
the spec (http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/sd.insertbackground.odt)
has a broken image of the proposed menu.
Also, it seems like there is a missing pathway: the spec mentions two
possibilities:
1) Adding a background image for a master automatically affects all the
slides that use that master.
2) Adding a background image to a specific slide prompts for a choice:
a) apply to one slide, or b) apply to the current slide only.
What happens if the presentation uses more than one master? Is only the
current master affected, or does it literally mean all slides? If all
slides, will the background for all masters be changed?
good questions. The Spec Doc doesn't mention whether the master slide
gets changed or just a new background image is applied to the current
slide. It also does not mention what happens to other slides using the
same master slide.
We (online help authors, manual authors, etc) must either ask the author
of the Spec Doc or install the CWS (where is it?) and find out by some
tests what happens.
Given the fact that now, a few days before feature freeze, a lot of new
features arrive, such features that are not well documented must wait
until there is spare time to care for them. Any other, well documented
features will be processed prior to these research tasks.
Uwe
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