Re: Toolbar / Styles dialog final proposals

Styles are only useful in certain situations, but in others they can be
a hassle. For me, the font name is essential. It may be more efficient
to define a style when you change the font for large documents, but if
I'm dealing with a large document, I use OpenOffice Writer. When I'm
dealing with a small document, I use AbiWord and I don't want to be
bothered with styles. It is too much hassle to define a style when I
only want to change the font. In my opinion the following are
essential: Font name, font size, bold, underline, italics, left,
center, right, full justify. The rest of the buttons I never use in
AbiWord.

--cheers,
Amos Batto

Quoting "J.M. Maurer" <uwog@uwog.net>:

>
>> > Two issues remain:
>> > + Can we get along without left/center/right/justify in the toolbar?
>> > Maybe with the introduction of shortcuts?
>
> Hmmm, i'd drop the color/spelling check "crap" first... I never used
> them before, and I do use the alignment controls a lot
>
>> > + I'm tempted to remove the Underline button as this is said to be a
>> > relic from typewriter days (it would of course still be available
>> from
>> > the "Format -> Font" dialog).
>>
>> I would agree. I might also argue the same for the text colour button
>> and the spellchecker; on the other hand, I would like to keep the
>> highlight button, as I use that often, probably most often of all the
>> TB
>> buttons, after the style combo.
>
> Yay for comflicting uses... My opinion would not be against either
> choice though. Drop the spell checker though (that is almost always
> automatic anyway)
>
> About the font name: I'm not sure. My dad for example does not even know
> what a "Times new roman" is, let alone that it is a font (not kidding
> here). For him, the proposal would work nice... for me, well, I can use
> both.
>
> Marc
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 12 18:17:30 2006