Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-05 Thread Philipp Lohmann
Michael Meeks wrote: Ultimately, it boils down to the fact that a purely generic dialog solution is not really feasible: custom logic per dialog is necessary. If people want to wrap that with a propert-set API (as we do already though not an UNO one) - that is great ! at least, since I'm

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-05 Thread Philipp Lohmann
Mathias Bauer wrote: Michael Meeks wrote: Anyhow - it sounds like you guys would like to hack on layout, if so - you're most welcome, there should be no problem with that: though of course, making that easy requires getting the ABI breakage in awtfixes1 included. Yes, you mentioned tha

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-04 Thread Mathias Bauer
Michael Meeks wrote: >> But it would be good and nice to actually start now with some of >> them. As an example, I would like to convert all "Format-whatever" >> dialogs into parts of a formatting pane. In fact we are currently >> discussing ways to implement that with the developers from RedFlag

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > IMHO we just need some coordination. Then we all agree ! :-) bother - there was some serious flameage potential in this one. > I didn't read Christian's statement as a plea to do everything in one > step, as I understood he just o

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Caolan McNamara wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Michael Meeks wrote: >> >> >> If we want to do this for OpenOffice.org, we should decide about this >> >> now. Because in that case we will need to rewrite lots of the modal >> >> dialogs anyway. So replacing the

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jan, I like what you do, please go on. Regards, Christian Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Germany writes: Hi Christian, I very much enjoy your work for the dialog layouting on your blog[1]. Everyone interesting in user interface work for OOo should have a loo

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Germany
Caolan McNamara wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: Michael Meeks wrote: If we want to do this for OpenOffice.org, we should decide about this now. Because in that case we will need to rewrite lots of the modal dialogs anyway. So replacing them now with a 1:1 layout

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote: > > >> If we want to do this for OpenOffice.org, we should decide about this > >> now. Because in that case we will need to rewrite lots of the modal > >> dialogs anyway. So replacing them now with a 1:1 layouted moda

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Michael Meeks wrote: >> If we want to do this for OpenOffice.org, we should decide about this >> now. Because in that case we will need to rewrite lots of the modal >> dialogs anyway. So replacing them now with a 1:1 layouted modal dialog >> is just wasted resources. Changing a modal dialog to a

Re: [dev] Re: About the OOo dialog layouting patches

2007-12-02 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
If I understand correctly... We start with an undesirable current state of things. Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg wrote: in OOo you select some content, then you fire up a dialog, make changes to 50+ settings and hope for the best ( working undo ). Next, a quote of working