On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:29:58PM +0200, Michael Gerz wrote:
> John, JMarc,
>
> what do you think about the patch below? The idea is to have a submenu
> for character styles that combines layout-specific char styles,
> bold/emphasize/noun style, and the font dialog. The layout-specific char
> styles have been moved from menu "Insert". Although the styles are
> actually implemented as insets, the user does not think in terms of
> "inserting" something. Bold/emphasize/noun style - whether you like it
> or not - are frequently requested features. There is at least one
> bugzilla report for re-adding "bold" to the menu. The font dialog is
> listed at the end ("Other...") because users should not be encouraged to
> use it often. Regarding the word-* functions: We might move them to the
> submenu as well to shorten the "Edit" menu (as done in the patch).
> However, after testing "word-capitalize", I really doubt that this
> particular functions is very useful (why do we have it at all?).
>
> Any comments?
>
> MichaelThis looks very nice to me. - Martin > Index: stdmenus.ui > =================================================================== > --- stdmenus.ui (revision 14919) > +++ stdmenus.ui (working copy) > @@ -89,14 +89,10 @@ > Separator > Item "Find & Replace...|F" "dialog-show findreplace" > Separator > - Item "Word in Small Capitals" "word-capitalize" > - Item "Word in Uppercase" "word-upcase" > - Item "Word in Lowercase" "word-lowcase" > - Separator > Item "Move Paragraph Up|o" "paragraph-move-up" > Item "Move Paragraph Down|v" "paragraph-move-down" > Separator > - Item "Text Style...|S" "dialog-show character" > + Submenu "Character Style...|C" "insert_charstyles" > Item "Paragraph Settings...|P" "layout-paragraph" > Separator > # Mathed b0rkage means these don't work properly > @@ -136,6 +132,19 @@ > PasteRecent > End > > + Menu "insert_charstyles" > + CharStyles > + Separator > + Item "Emphasize Style|E" "font-emph" > + Item "Noun Style|N" "font-noun" > + Item "Bold Style|B" "font-bold" > + Separator > + Item "Other...|O" "dialog-show character" > + Separator > + Item "Uppercase" "word-upcase" > + Item "Lowercase" "word-lowcase" > + End > + > # not much we can do to help here > Menu "edit_tabular" > Item "Multicolumn|M" "tabular-feature multicolumn" > @@ -253,7 +262,6 @@ > # YUCK > Submenu "Note|N" "insert_note" > OptSubmenu "Branch|B" "insert_branches" > - OptSubmenu "Character Style|y" "insert_charstyles" > Submenu "File|e" "insert_file" > Item "Box" "box-insert Frameless" > Separator > @@ -377,10 +385,6 @@ > Branches > End > > - Menu "insert_charstyles" > - CharStyles > - End > - > # > # DOCUMENT MENU > # >
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