On 02/14/2012 11:17 AM, noibs wrote: ... > > Frankly, I view the elimination of visible margins as part of the dumbing > down of user interfaces that I'm seeing in Mac OS Lion, Ubuntu 11.10, and > now LO. It's the "let's make it pretty to look at even if if compromises > the usefulness" school of thought. Clearly, LO Writer is not as pretty to > look at with margin guides showing. But, for me, it's more useful. > C'mon--this is a "View" menu option if there ever was one. > ...
>From what I gather, it was/is based on a Microsoft Word & OpenOffice 'me too' design: <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Writer_SpecialIndicators#Document_Margin_Design> [Document Margin Design] --> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DocumentBorder> Maybe also of interest: <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg03155.html> [libreoffice-design] [Info] Whiteboard page for Special Indicators in Writer (Header / Footer, Document Border, Page Break) <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/DocumentBackground> <http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/11689/3242/> [Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO] <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03279.html> [same thread - different format] <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2011-July/000078.html> [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Header and Footers separators design (looks to be the initial start of the change) Unanswered request on the Design list: <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg03578.html> [libreoffice-design] Text boundaries like 3.4.x I tried searching for a bug report about the change but couldn't find one. I'm surprised that a change like this doesn't have one. The only thing I could find is: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31251> [Bug 31251 - [EasyHack] Make the default page look better ] But that seems to be only related to the entire page background/shadow. FWIW: I agree that this is a regression & that a user option to turn the margin lines on/off should be added. I'd recommend filing a bug report so that the issue gets documented & into the report system. Gary -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
