Re: Tables user interface

2001-01-17 Thread John Levon
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > Well we could disable elements which are useless for a certain selection > (as first measure). yes, this would be a good first step. > > The solution is to add some handles to the tables. Think spreadsheet - we > > will have little grey boxes around t

Re: Tables user interface

2001-01-17 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:56:39PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote: > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm ... > Subject: Re: Tables user interface > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:33:1

Re: Tables user interface

2001-01-17 Thread Juergen Vigna
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:33:11PM +, John Levon wrote: > > The blue select thus loses almost all meaning in terms of visual > feedback. It is often quite unclear what will actually be affected by what > operations. Furthermore, the tabular dialog is particularly confusing - > each tab treats

Tables user interface

2001-01-12 Thread John Levon
The current tables interface is much improved, but still has significant user interface problems. It is confusing and misleading, and very non-intuitive. We have one single interface for controlling properties of cells, rows, columns, and the table as a whole. This is the "blue select" interface