>>>>> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Or, on a similar line, when the user selects Length, have an >> 'edit...' button which opens a popup where the user can set length >> and glue. THis way you (1) make things more complicated and (2) >> avoid to duplicate everywhere the code to set units and such. Juergen> Hm..., I do not like too many popups. And I'm not shure if we Juergen> avoid much duplication (we do of course concerning the GUI Juergen> elements and settings, though). Yes, the GUI was a main concern actually. I do not like what I saw of the qt2 GUI, with all those textfields to enter glue. They are distracting, and probably encourage people to use them. Juergen> (and exclude some values if necessary). I'm really not shure Juergen> if we should try to force the user too much by making things Juergen> hard. We shouldn't make ugly things too easy, but IMHO the Juergen> better way is to *explain* the user why he should handle Juergen> explicit VSpace lenghts with care. So it is more a Juergen> documentation issue. My idea was (1) to make the bad things less easy to do but also (2) simplify the layouts of the popups. I want the most obvious way of doig spacing to be the predefined skips. >> How difficult would that be? Juergen> I don't know. We'd need a new popup which is accessable from Juergen> various other popus (like FileDialog or MessageBox). So this Juergen> would be something like AskForText (no?). It would probably not be modal... Hmm, I do not know, actually. Juergen> Apart from that I do not really like it, is this not too much Juergen> change for 1.2.0 (or are you talking about the bright Juergen> future)? I do not know, I am just talking. JMarc
