Hi Michael, (Since this is purely UI talk, I'm only answering on the UX advise mailing list)
2012/2/8 Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> > > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > > Hehe. Take a look at the amazing mock-up and ideas that Mirek has been > > working on for a while now: > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/ > > They look nice :-) > Thanks. :) > > > (No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet, but there's some > > pretty cool stuff there.) > > So - one thing that I (personally) rather dislike is this "bold / > italic / underline" meme that still lurks heavily in new UI designs. > IMHO these need to be firmly held underwater until they expire ;-) Good > mockups around making styles more visible and manageable, creating (and > customizing) new styles [ which can indeed include the > bold/italic/underline elements ;-] much appreciated for that. > I beg to differ here: having up-front "Bold", "Italic", and "Underline" buttons for quick formatting is always going to be better than forcing the user to go through a drop-down menu for these items. If the user later wishes to color all bolded items in the document, he can use the search tool for that. I did hide the font and size drop downs under the overflow menu, though, since they are almost always use for whole paragraphs -- paragraph styles are more appropriate here. I also put in two distinct style drop downs -- one for paragraph styles, one for character styles, to differentiate between what the styles apply to and so that a person using styles frequently doesn't have to continually switch between "character" and "paragraph" tabs. In Citrus UI, I used colors<http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/prominent-styles/>to make style drop downs more prominent, but this didn't seem appropriate for Android's Holo theme. > > Otherwise, some good ideas there. Do we have excitable people > wanting > to do UI work in Java - that we can plug together with the core in due > course ? it'd be great to parallelise that work. > > Thanks, > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > >
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