Hi everyone, First of all: very nice feature indeed!
On 15 November 2011 19:15, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> wrote: > :-) sounds reasonable. My only concern would be to make it discoverable > and of course performance: would we take a per-keystroke hit there ? so > perhaps having it easy-to-enable but disabled by default would make > sense. How large is the hit? Has anyone measured already? Personally, I can't really perceive anything when comparing writing with the Word Count window open v/ without it. >> eg. Page 1/2 (354 words) >> Would that be an acceptable UI change? > > Sounds fine to me - but we have the ux-advise list for this sort of > thing. I think Kendy is gunning to allow people to remove the status bar > altogether ;-) but ... no doubt that is not to everyone's taste. I tend to agree with Kendy here. We also already have a lot of things in the status bar already, to the point where it looks cluttered on smaller screens. >> I think MS Word has something I this, but I no idea if it on by default >> or some soft of option or dock. > > Interesting question of course. Clearly docking the word-count window > is an easy option wrt. adding new UI. I like this as a solution much better, that's for two reasons: * currently we don't use the space to sides of the pages at all (except for the ruler and the scrollbar) * more information can be presented in a much more coherent manner than in a status bar Would it be possible to add the word count as a "Tasks" sidebar element (see Impress/Draw)? (This is possible in Writer, see the recently released AccessODF extension [1] which also uses the tasks sidebar. I think the interface is also XML based there, no idea if that tells us anything about how easy relayouting is.) Astron. [1] sourceforge.net/p/accessodf _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
