[Usability] Text-editing widget, attempt 2

2010-07-21 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hey, I just came up with a second design [0], which looks better to me, but has flaws (annotated aside). Please tell me what you think of it, Cheers, Stéphane. [0] : http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2446/textwidget2.png ___ usability mailing list usa

Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget

2010-07-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 21:41 -0500, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: > However, I'm currently working on a text-editing widget, that is a > widget which preview the text you're going to insert in your document, > but also shows you some cool options like a shadow, outline or inset, > plus all the sub-option

Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget, attempt 2

2010-07-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 02:26 -0500, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: > [0] : http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2446/textwidget2.png The tab label is "Shadow", so an "Enable" might be enough for the checkbox. Though a "Draw shadow" or "Add shadow" wouldn't be bad. I'm not sure what Width does and would hav

Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget, attempt 2

2010-07-21 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
> Hi St?phane! > > Is it really necessary or in any way beneficial to have a dialog with > preview for inserting text instead of in-place editing? > No, I guess I can use directly the sidebar, I was just working on it seperatly. > Adding text to a presentation, I either want to >  * just click a t

Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget, attempt 2

2010-07-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:59 -0500, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: > Yes, for the moment I'm implementing those styling capabilities as > Interfaces, which means (I guess you're all programmers, but in doubt) > that every object that implements it, whatever is its type, gains the > ability to draw shadow.

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2010-07-21 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello Jan-Christoph! > Kirk and I are discussing this. We have a google wave discussion, but > nothing much is going on, unfortunately. We've been busy with other things, > but this is definitely on the to do list (and my "drafts" email folder)

Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget, attempt 2

2010-07-21 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:59 -0500, Stéphane Maniaci wrote: >> > "X" and "Y" make me think, "Horizontal" and "Vertical" much less so. You >> > can avoid repetition by changing "Position" to "Offset". >> >> Thought about this, but do you think

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2010-07-21 Thread Allan Caeg
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < inqu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: > > Hello Jan-Christoph! > > Kirk and I are discussing this. We have a google wave discussion, but > > nothing much is going on, unfortunately. We've bee