Oliver, Feel free to call on AOO User Experience for support with the usage scenarios, task flow analysis, interaction design and user feedback.
I'll leave to coding to the experts :) Regards, Kevin AOO User Experience Designer On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.05.12 13:12, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: > > Hi, >> >> On 07.05.2012 18:20, eric b wrote: >> >>> >>> Le 7 mai 12 à 18:01, Regina Henschel a écrit : >>> >>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> >>> Hi Regina, >>> >>> >>> user often ask why they cannot rotate pictures in Writer, e.g issue >>>> 3545. >>>> There exists a tip to copy a picture from Draw to Writer, then it can be >>>> rotated. But that Draw-picture is different from a Writer- picture. >>>> >>>> I have made a table to collect the differences between >>>> Writer-pictures and >>>> Draw-pictures. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks a lot ! >>> >>> FYI, there was a little mismatch with the issue number, and I fixed it >>> on the wiki >>> >>> >>> It is currently in my personal area on the Media-wiki. If you find it >>>> useful >>>> and you know a suitable place, please tell me where to put it. >>>> >>> >>> >>> I think it it the right location. Let's wait for other opinions though >>> ... >>> >>> >>> >>>> http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/wiki/User:**Regina/** >>>> ComparisonWriterDrawPicture<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Regina/ComparisonWriterDrawPicture> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> That's a very good idea. As you probably read in the issue, I took >>> over the >>> task, and I'll use this wiki page to report any progress and step done. >>> >>> The idea is, as discussed with Oliver and Armin, to reuse some Draw >>> features in >>> Writer, like (image rotation). There is a lot to do and any help is >>> welcome. >>> >>> >> Armin's and my idea is mainly removing the Writer implementation for >> images/pictures, introduce all its features missing in the Drawing Layer >> implementation for images/pictures and use the Drawing Layer >> implementation for images/pictures in Writer. >> Our idea is quite old, but we never got the resources to work on it. >> Unfortunately, all the work we had done in preparation is lost. This >> lost work mainly covers something like you Regina had done. It >> summarized all the features of the Writer implementation which are >> currently not available in the Drawing Layer implementation. It also >> contained some planning of the corresponding implementation. But, it is >> lost and needs to be done again. >> >> > The work is not completely lost. > I have found the wiki page http://wiki.services.** > openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/**Unification_of_Graphic_** > Objects_and_Embedded_Objects<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Unification_of_Graphic_Objects_and_Embedded_Objects> > > It contains more or less the summary of the ideas from Armin, Oliver > Specht, Henning Brinkmann and myself regarding our idea to remove the > Writer implementation for pictures/images/graphics and embedded object in > favor of the Drawing Layer implementations. > There are also given some details on the planned implementation. > > > > Best regards, Oliver. > > >>> Current work in progress : >>> >>> - I expermiented some hack (adding image Rotation), but something is >>> missing >>> >>> - reading most of the Draw code. >>> - comparing Writer and Draw shells. >>> >>> Long term plan : >>> Make it work. >>> >>> Are you interested to share / contribute to the task with me ? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Erid >>> >>> >>> >
