Hi Jan,
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
look at it.
I just have one minor RFE. You try to mimic the original dialog
designs as best as possible to have a proof of concept that
your layouting can replace existing OOo dialogs with ease.
I think you proofed your concept and we should start focusing
on how to improve the dialogs. And one thing I would love to
see is that the common dialog control buttons ("ok", "cancel",
"help", "previous", "next", etc. ) are not part of the layout.
Currently there are many different positions where these buttons
appear. Mainly because of two reasons, UI guidelines changed over
time and personal taste of the dialog designer.
In a perfect world, all dialogs that have the same subset of
dialog control buttons should place them in the same position.
In a more than perfect world, these arrangements could be changed
for different platforms.
So the layout information should only be given for the controls
that form the client area of the dialog. But the control buttons
should just be marked as "i'm used!" and the LayoutDialog should
decide where to place them.
Best placement of the control buttons in relation to the dialogs
control client area should be discussed on the discuss mailing
list of the ux.openoffice.org project.
And while I think your minimal way to layout existing dialogs
is very good, when do you think is a good time to discuss how
new dialogs should be implemented using your LayoutDialog?
Please keep up your good work, but don't waste to much time
making the layouted dialogs look like the ugly original dialogs :)
Best Regards,
Christian
PS: I have posted this on the [email protected] mailing list,
hope to see you there
[1] http://lilypond.org/blog/janneke/
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