On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:15:43PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > >Andre Poenitz wrote: > >>Is there a particular reason we keep the dialogs around instead of > >>re-build them each time they are shown? > >> > >>Do they keep important state? > >> > >I seem to remember some conversations in which people did want some > >of the dialogs to retain state. E.g., if you want to apply the same > >settings to a sequence of paragraphs. But I'm not sure. > > Or when you want to apply the same settings to a sequence of > selections. > > Example: I spellcheck a norwegian text on computer science. Many > computing terms are english words and so they fail the spellcheck. > But the spellchecker also select them, so I simply hit "apply" in the > custom text style dialog, where "english language" is already > selected. This is an easy way of marking all the foreign terms, so > the spellchecker will match those against the english dictionary the > next time I update the document.
But you usually would keep the dialog open, wouldn't you? But in any case, making the thing session-safe sounds sensible... Andre'
