[scribus-dev] Fwd: Scribus/OIF development round for 2011

[Andreas Vox]

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> Von: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>
> Datum: 20. Mai 2011 16:04:18 MESZ
> An: Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info>
> Kopie: Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com>, Peter Linnell <plinnell at scribus.info>, avox <avox at arcor.de>, Jean Ghali <jghali at libertysurf.fr>, Franz Schmid <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de>, Alessandro Rimoldi <ale at ideale.ch>, Cedric Gémy <cedric.gemy at gmail.com>, claudia krummenacher <claudia at neunauge.com>
> Betreff: Re: Scribus/OIF development round for 2011
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 
>> Two things only, as I am on iPhone:
>> - Alex, please don't complain about rc3, svn has less crashes, use it, I
>> know you know how. Most of them were related to text undo. It was too late
>> in the process to add it but it was a critical addition for 1.4.
> 
> rc3 specific things are only the tip of the iceberg. I'm pretty sure I
> made it clear :)
> 
>> - Style Manager stays, I have not seen one single convincing argument
>> against it, other than it's own bugs. Estan from our gsoc tables project has
>> proven that adding new types of styles to SM is pretty easy - his test for
>> tables took under a day. Plus, you are suggesting adding more controls to a
>> palette that you say is already too complicated.
> 
> I have to say I'm torn. On one hand, managing styles should be
> convinient, and SM is OK for that. OTOH, the way new styles are
> created, edited and applied is a complete disaster. Take it from
> someone who came up with SM design :) (admittedly, the initial design
> was changed along the way, and not the way I liked)
> 
> IMO we need a complete usability research on that. E.g. we already
> discussed on-canvas formatting options before as a way to keep
> attention locus, but I know of no decisions made (not that I tracked
> it), and anyway it's just one of approaches, not part of some big
> picture.
> 
> P.S. Could we take the discussion to scribus-dev@ please? I know Louis
> unsubscribed, and I was on the verge of unsubscribing myself one time,
> but all this CC thing is really not very handy.
> 
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org

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