Le 05/11/2015 07:31, Vincent van Ravesteijn a écrit :
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote:
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
I consider it also document, not user, setting. It would cause confusions
if this setting is not transfered to my collaborators within the document.
I disagree. There is no confusion possible.
It is. When the document circles I want the CT be part of document
setting not dependent whether this or another collaborator forgot
to switch CT.
Pavel, I agree with Vincent that we need to think more about your use
case. Given what you seem to use it for (though maybe you and Günter
could expand a bit more on your expectations for more clarity), the
current situation does not seem ideal given that the interface does not
express any intention. Your description gives the impression that if
your collaborator starts writing and they do not see that the changes
are not being tracked, then they will not know or care about enabling
change tracking, as if they had no clue, and this little button has to
be enabled for them without them to know about it... This seems a bit
far fetched to me.
Besides the lack of intention conveyed, I already mentioned the
principle of least surprise: it is not clear for a new user that this is
a purpose of the button. So if what is currently implemented is really
what you have in mind, then it is a very poorly designed feature.
To expand on Vincent's suggestion:
Maybe that could be a new feature: "Editing this document is only
allowed with track changes on. Track changes can only be turned off by
the one that "locked" the file".
That "CT lock" feature, instead of imposing such a strict constraint
(that could always be circumvented one way or the other...), could maybe
display instead a message like "Pavel Sanda has requested that changes
be tracked. Are you sure that you want to disable change tracking?".
But I would like to read more suggestions from you and Günter given that
you know better than us what you need.
Guillaume
