Review Request: New UI for words, some hopefully insignificat changes to other apps

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> On Oct. 16, 2011, 6:08 a.m., Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> > My biggest concern is about constiency between the different applications changes with this patch. Would it not be better if that would be a common option the user can select so all applications would behave like that?
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> Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
>     Basically it is the results of discussion at the UX sprint in Berlin, last spring. And after discussion with the UI experts there, we reach the conclusion that the consistency that was important between application was on the behaviour of the tools, and that each application need to investigate how they are exposed to their users. For words, the conclusion was clearly that the docker system is not adapted for a word processing application, while it is great for graphics application. Whether this UI style would work well for other "office" application, like stage or flow need to be investigated (tables definitey need something different).
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>     Since useless options are confusing for users, and the docker variant is not deemed adapted for words, then I think that a user-visible option for "switching" between dockers and tabs is not a good idea.

I agree with Cyrille here. Even though some degree of adaptability in a UI does makes sense, the most basic interaction concepts should not be changed by the user, as this makes the whole UI unpredictable and makes support and documentation difficult.


- Thomas


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On Oct. 15, 2011, 4:49 p.m., C. Boemann wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 15, 2011, 4:49 p.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra.
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> Description
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> This UI was conceived during the KDE User Experience sprint in Berlin 2011
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> It basically provides a drop-in-replacement for the toolbox + tooloptionsdocker in the form of a single docker containing QToolBox widget.
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> The new KoModeBox is used in Words only. All the other applications should be left unchanged.
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> The tools have a new extended usage of the Type attribute. See the KoToolFactoryBase.h changes for description. It should be compatible with the krita usage.
> The only visible changes outside Words would probably be that the gradient, pattern,calligraphy tools end up in a separate section of the toolbox.
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> Diffs
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>   karbon/plugins/tools/CalligraphyTool/KarbonCalligraphyToolFactory.cpp cb1c092 
>   karbon/plugins/tools/KarbonGradientToolFactory.cpp 786d98a 
>   karbon/plugins/tools/KarbonPatternToolFactory.cpp 1ec250fa 
>   karbon/plugins/tools/KarbonPencilToolFactory.cpp 4fd1105 
>   karbon/plugins/tools/filterEffectTool/KarbonFilterEffectsToolFactory.cpp c30f1be 
>   libs/flake/KoToolFactoryBase.h 73f2534 
>   libs/flake/KoToolManager.cpp 3bcae08 
>   libs/main/CMakeLists.txt 9539a5a 
>   libs/main/KoDockerManager.h 7e44455 
>   libs/main/KoDockerManager.cpp 7f5b17d 
>   libs/main/KoModeBox.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/KoModeBoxFactory.h PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/KoModeBoxFactory.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/KoModeBox_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/KoToolBox.cpp ede46d4 
>   plugins/textshape/ReferencesToolFactory.cpp 096e602 
>   plugins/textshape/ReviewToolFactory.cpp bbd6452 
>   plugins/textshape/TextToolFactory.cpp 438846c 
>   words/part/KWGui.cpp 69d309b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102871/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Screenshots
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> screentshot of the new ui
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102871/s/306/
> toolbox in karbon
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102871/s/307/
> toolbox in krita
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102871/s/308/
> toolbox in stage
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102871/s/309/
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C. Boemann
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