Hi all, just a quick status report on the Calc's "Named Ranges" Astron and myself (looking from the Design Team perspective) were working on.
For those not following the libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list: since the Hackfest in September, we've discussed lots of UI proposals that aimed for "direct manipulation". Thus, reducing the number of the odd "Add", "Modify", "Delete" buttons whilst keeping the document editable at the same time. Plus, providing feedback as early as possible if the user changes e.g. the name (by using invalid characters). Most of the time, we've run into technical issues ... or performance issues. So, last week, we've decided to go with a more simple approach to meet the 3.5 deadline. Luckily, "simpler" still means having lots of improvements over the current range name handling. For those being curious (and those who might help testing, once Markus completed the implementation): http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Calc_Range_Names A big "thank you" goes to Markus (the developer) for his patience and his will to make things better. And of course thanks to Kohei and Eike ... long-time Calc hackers who always were open to review the proposals. And, Astron, thanks for the very valuable feedback and the great ideas! Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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