Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> R. Lahaye wrote:
>
>>(2) and (3) should be implemented with a better button disable/enable
>>policy than we have now.
>
>
> What special problems do you have with that policy? It is very clever IMHO.
No, it's not. It's dumb. It removes settings, that need not be removed!
E.g. selecting "Here, definitely", not only disables the others buttons,
but also resets them. That is a stupid behaviour. Similar, but a somewhat
different, silly behaviour for "Ignore internal rules". Do not reset buttons,
but only disable them.
Another practical example: I may have a fancy setting selected, but accidentally
select the "Here, definitely" button: kaboom, fancy setting gone. You should
not do that. Simply disable the other buttons; when I then unselect
"Here, definitely" immediately after, I should get to my former fancy setting back.
IMHO, this behaviour is really bad and needs changed.
> More precise:
> The default button adds the default placement which you have chosen in
> Document->Extras. This might be something completely different as the float
> defaults (that's why the button should be renamed "Document Defaults" as in
> my pending patch).
OK, that explains a bit. But then the Float Options dialog needs a totally different
layout. We should make it more obvious that we have basically a choice out of three:
1) Default from doc. setting.
2) Here, definitely!
3) Other.
With Other (or whatever to call it), enable the choice of
Top/Bottom/Here,if/Page_of_floats/Ignore_internal_rules.
Selecting none in Other, may 'automagically' flip to "Default from doc.",
which could be said by text somewhere in the dialog (tooltip?).
The present form of this dialog is bad GUI design to me.
Cheers,
Rob.
