2012/6/26 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 06/26/2012 08:53 PM, Louis
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<blockquote type="cite">2012/6/26 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span><br>
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Serif">It's an idea which occurred to me as I was making a
text frame that I intended to create columns in.<br>
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What if we had an item in the context menu that said, for
example, "Text Tab", so that if you selected it, up popped
a free-floating equivalent to the Text tab of Properties,
with all its settings, and it would stay open until I
closed it? If I selected a different text frame, its
settings applied there.<br>
Similarly, I could bring up a Shape tab by right-clicking
a polygon or shape, an Image tab if I right-clicked an
image frame.<br>
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This is just some free-form musing about the mess that
Properties has become.<br>
Perhaps the best way to conquer Properties is to draw and
quarter it...<br>
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<div>I believe that this is where we are trying to go now. The
PP would contextually offer the user the settings that are
relevant to the active object. When in a Text frame, text
settings, when in an image frame, image settings. Not even the
need for a right-click.</div>
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<div>Ale could elaborate on this.</div>
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But the point is, there are tabs which are context-specific and
those which are not. I can imagine working with a text frame, having
a free-floating text tab, and yet in the remnants of Properties
working with XYZ tab functions. You would leave in Properties those
features which might apply to various objects.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that’s the point. The PP lets you act on what you’re on. So, there would still be a bit of redundancy in the PP but each pane you see has it all for what you’re at.</div>
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