Fwd: New style selector in Calligra

[Marta Rybczynska]

Hello Pierre,
It looks interesting. Could you provide screenshots showing how the new 
functionality works?

Thanks
Marta

Dnia czwartek 19 styczeń 2012 o 18:19:50 Danny Allen napisał(a):
> Could be interesting to follow up!
> 
> Danny
> 
> p.s. I'm going to try and fix the stats issue tonight.
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Pierre Stirnweiss" <pstirnweiss at googlemail.com>
> To: hello at commit-digest.org
> Sent: Thursday, 19 January, 2012 5:17:00 PM
> Subject: New style selector in Calligra
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am not sure it is the proper channel for this, but I'd like to present a
> bit something that has landed in Calligra master last Monday (16.01.12).
> It might (or might not) be of interest to you for the digest. The feature
> (however it can be also regarded as a bug fix, since we normally are in
> feature freeze) is a new style selection widget.
> 
> 
> This new widget is based on a QComboBox. It therefore shows the pretty
> standard behavior of a combo box in selecting a style from a list of the
> available styles. However, the style selection combo has a couple of
> additional features: - firstly, the styles are previewed both in the drop
> down menu and in the combo itself. If the preview cannot fit, the font
> size is decreased until it fits, the real font size is displayed in that
> case. - secondly, in the drop down menu, a button is shown on the item
> under the cursor. This button allows to call the style manager where style
> properties can be changed. - thirdly, when a property of the selected
> style is modified in the text, a + button appears in the combo. Pressing
> on it will put the combo in edit mode where the user can enter the name of
> the new style that will be created based on the modified properties.
> 
> 
> I have also made a blog post with some more details and screenshots.
> 
> 
> If you are interested in putting this in the digest, feel free to either
> modify the text above (since it probably isn't fit for publishing as such)
> or tell me what I need to modify to render it digest compatible.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> PierreSt
> Calligra developer.
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