UI and such for Sections

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 09 December 2011 17:15:10 Dan Jensen wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
>   Over the last couple of days i've been poking about with trying to
> come up with some UI that'll fit into how the rest of the Calligra
> Words UI works, and have come up with what i believe will be the
> lest-impact solution to this. i have (as suggested by Jaroslav) looked
> at libreoffice's implementation of this, and adapted some of their
> work to fit better into Calligra's workflows. What this means is:
> There are two dialogues which you can see here (one embeds the other),
> and there are two ways of reaching the addition, removing and editing
> of sections functionality (one through the menu, one through the
> status bar inspired by the page styles bit). The sections part of the
> status bar is only shown in case the cursor is, in fact, inside a
> section (this is also why it is at the right, as this hiding/unhiding
> behaviour would otherwise cause the page style controls to move around
> all the time, which is obviously not a good idea).
>   Whiteboard sketch here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/49031477@N00/6482274775/in/photostream
>   So, if you have things to make comment on for this, please do so, i
> should love to hear them :)
Hmmm, I thought we agreed that you should call for an irc meeting. Besides a 
99% copy of the LO ui for sections is definitely not what we want. LO is hardly 
worth copying when it comes to ui.

So please set up a doodle with some suggested dates for an irc meeting