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yoxi Cipher
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:49 am Post subject: |
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I'd like this too - and not just in Impress but in Writer etc. too.
I'm pretty sure I already voted for this a couple of years ago .
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James3359 The Merovingian
Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 685 Location: North West England
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: |
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I agree that it would be a worthwhile usability improvement, and it would be more Mac-like too. I've just looked at Pages and AppleWorks, and both pop up smaller font sizes as well as larger, starting at 9 point. _________________ MacBook Pro
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pluby The Architect
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: |
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OK. Since nearly all of the the moderators voted for this feature almost immediately, it sounds like a good idea.
I will take a look at the OpenOffice.org code and see if this is something that I can implement for the next release. I have a feeling that code for drawing most of the dropdown list boxes is in one place so I am hoping that if I can implement the change, the change will appear in most of the list boxes throughout NeoOffice.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | I have a feeling that code for drawing most of the dropdown list boxes is in one place so I am hoping that if I can implement the change, the change will appear in most of the list boxes throughout NeoOffice. |
I should hope so. Then there would be a point to a shared codebase between all of the OOo applications..
I hope you find it quickly and easily
Best wishes,
Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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yoxi Cipher
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Patrick - this is one of those tweaks that looks small but will make a very noticeable difference to the user experience. It'll mean one less mouse click + 2 less mouse moves each time to lower point size - which equals less RSI. Though in practice I tend to up-arrow with my other hand to save my mouse wrist.
I hope you can find a solution without too much trawling.
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pluby The Architect
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: |
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I think I found it and, maybe I am just lucky today, but it appears that the topmost entry in the list is set in once place. I changed the code to make the first entry 3 above the selected entry (or the the first entry if there are less than 3 entries above the selected entry).
The following screen snapshot shows how this small change looks like in the font size listbox. Is this the change that all of you are looking for?
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James3359 The Merovingian
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:17 am Post subject: |
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Looks good to me _________________ MacBook Pro
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Given the length of the list, you might change the 3 places to 4, but on the whole this would already be a lot better, for reasons so eloquently explained by padmavyuha.
Well done
-Oz _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
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yoxi Cipher
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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X X X X ! |
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Samwise Captain Naiobi
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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pluby wrote: | I think I found it and, maybe I am just lucky today |
Felix Felicis
Looks good to me. Only similar GUI element I could find in an Apple app (after searching for 3 minutes) is here:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/
(second gallery, titled Fine-tune your document.)
Indeed, this will come in handy when attempting to quickly lower the font size. |
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Just curious: Will this change also act for other drop-down boxes (such as font selector)?
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Samwise Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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After Oscar's comment, I realized that the screenshot I mentioned is for a font dropdown, rather than font size dropdown. |
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pluby The Architect
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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ovvldc wrote: | Just curious: Will this change also act for other drop-down boxes (such as font selector)? |
This change affects nearly all of the comboboxes and dropdown listboxes that are in NeoOffice. The reason I say "nearly all" is that I would not be surprised if there are a few places in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code that don't use the code that I changed, but I have not found any yet.
BTW, this seems like a very low risk change so I will post a test patch in a few minutes so that you can test this particular change.
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pluby The Architect
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:30 am Post subject: |
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I installed test patch 4, and the change seems excellent so far. But I haven't gone through all of the UI. If I find any stragglers, I will let you know.
The only worry I had is when you might have a list that is smaller than 4 item, but from your posting with the screenshot, it looks like you've already caught that risk. _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
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