Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Muthu Subramanian
Hi, > > > > Advice: > > It would be really nice if I could get the UX team's advice on this, > > please? And how much value this behavior might provide (if at all) to > > the users? > For users who don't know the autofit feature, it increases the > probability to understand why the text changes it

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, So, I've just got around to looking at this on Mac OSX (sorry about that, but getting a debug build takes forever) and have a few questions / remarks : (1) why is there no "Back" button or arrow ? What I mean by this is that when a user clicks on a category of templates, at least on OSX,

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Alex, On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Hi all, > > So, I've just got around to looking at this on Mac OSX (sorry about > that, but getting a debug build takes forever) and have a few questions > / remarks : > > (1) why is there no "Back" button or arrow ? > > What I

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/10/12 09:24, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : > I also managed to get OSX to crash when attempting to use the scroll > arrow keys, but will have to see if this a one-off, or reproducible. > > Reproducible crash on OSX 10.8.2 under the following circumstances : 1) Launch LO 2) When the StartC

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/10/12 09:50, Mirek M. a écrit : Hi Mirek, > > AFAIK, the new OS X file management uses no back button as well. [1] > Instead, clicking a folder "expands" it and clicking away folds it back. > The folders in the template dialog should work somewhat similarly -- > clicking away or clicking "X

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/10/12 10:23, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : I have opened a bug report for the crash I'm experiencing in this dialog, and have added a screenshot of what the default display looks like after clicking on Templates from the StartCenter. Note that my OSX build includes the extra templates provide

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/10/12 10:38, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : > > Screenshot here : > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=68246 FWIW, this screenshot is almost identical (bar the OSX window dressing) to that which I get on my Linux 32bit build as well. Alex _

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 11:07 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > I think this autofit feature is very disturbing if you are not > aware of it. From my point of view it should be removed > because if what you are writing does not fit in the available > room, you should write les

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei hei! I agree with Mirek and think "Autofit" should be removed or optional (with the default being "off"). And I don't think we have to take exporting presentations to PPTX into consideration. The export to Microsoft Office is so bad (yes I know, it's Microsoft's fault!) that text size is t

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, several partial answers to points from various people. Disclaimer: I'm the original author of this feature, so at least I can tell you the reasons for why the feature behaves as-is today. ;) Muthu Subramanian wrote: > Currently the text font size box in the toolbar displays the > origin

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Template Dialog on Mac OSX

2012-10-08 Thread Mirek M.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 08/10/12 09:50, Mirek M. a écrit : > > Hi Mirek, > > > > > AFAIK, the new OS X file management uses no back button as well. [1] > > Instead, clicking a folder "expands" it and clicking away folds it back. > > The folders in the templ