usability feedback.

[Thomas Zander]

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> > Okay... I found the dialog in Photoshop. It looks almost too simple
> > :-).
>
> It is too simple.
> It displays the Units directly in the text entry instead of providing
> another drop down to allow you to select exactly the type of units
> you want (including things like 50%).

In KOffice we have a widget that is suppost to do this just like Photoshop 
does; you can type in the units after the digits if you don't want to use 
the default for the current document.
So I can type '1mm' in which case it gets converted automatically.

In KOffice the class to do that is; KoUnitDoubleSpinBox 

That widget probably needs some more love, but for consistency thats 
definitely the way to go.
I just tried it and there are still bugs in that widget with the automatic 
conversion. As I said, it needs some love, and we probably want to add 
things like "50%" as well.  But all that can be done koffice wide, and is 
on the TODO list for 1.5 anyway.

ps. In photoshop this feature exists as well; and arrow up/down work as 
well, even though there are no buttons like on a spinbox.
You can type '50%' in the photoshop input dialog; as well as silly things 
like '5pt' if you want.  They get converted for you when you press OK.
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Thomas Zander
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