Hi Marc, some additional remarks to those by Regina (Thanks!). The reason for not having a "x"-button to close some of the window is, that the source code and the interaction concepts are very old. Just look at the "selection" decoration - looks quite dated ... In comparison, the task panes in Impress (e.g. Slide Format Selection) are much more up to date and thus more flexible.
But some improvements concerning task panes / windows / ... are in progress at Oracle. But it is hard to align the behavior of all of them. You may have noticed (or your students) that the functions to toggle the visibility of those windows is spread among different menus (problem: visibility issue vs. functionality issue), that they behave different (missing 'x', docking/undocking), that they look different (old vs. new decorators), that they are used differently (task panes for Impress only). Let's sum it up that way - there is plenty to do for both the devs and the UX design team ;-) Cheers, Christoph Am Montag, den 27.12.2010, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: > Yes you are right. One looses sight that it is a docked window when > it > appears as a tool window as well. If you click through all of the > tools, > Gallery is the only tool where there is no exit button. Maybe it > should > then be treated in the same way? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
