On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:12:40PM +0200, Armin Le Grand wrote: > Hi List, > > I agree that the conent (no content) is not good. What we want the > user to do is to select an object or create/insert one, so it would > be nice to offer just that. It is a suggestion, but offering > insertin of objects may be best. Possibilities for this: > > (1) Gallery > (2) Panel which offers to start DrawObject construction, like in the > drawing toolbar > > We have a panel for (1), but the context switch would need to change > the TabBar (instead of reacting on context switch and changing the > panels dependent of content). > > We have no panel for (2), but it may be not too difficult to crreate > one. Wouldn't it be nice to have/show that panel for other apps, > too? It could show the draw object creators as ToolBars with useful > groups, but some of this vertically, thus offering a much more > direct selection which object creation to start than the current > Draw toolbar offers... > > Maybe too much for 4.0, but...
Option (2) looks like http://www.libre-software.net/sites/default/files/eva/2008%2005%20-%20Redoffice%20review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%2012%20Shapes.png RedOffice 4 Beta came with a side panel, whole article http://www.libre-software.net/redoffice-review-chinese-office-suite Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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