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Subject: Re: [office] proposal for new position and space attributes for thelist level
Thomas Zander wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 14:04, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software > engineer - Sun Microsystems Inc wrote: >>> Thanks for your long email and explanation. >>> I'm unconvinced of the benefits, and I think the MS compatibility is a >>> red herring for lists based on the simple premise that these extentions >>> create a far to complex solution that no user actually will understand >>> and thus we won't end up with something better. >> In my opinion, the new attributes are as complex as the existing ones. >> I think the new attributes have the advantage, that the user doesn't >> have to take care about the paragraph indent attributes, when the user >> maps his/her imagination of position and space of the list label and >> the list item to the provided attributes of OpenDocument. > > That's one way of looking at it :) > Having 2 ways of altering the indent (the paragraph and the list ones), > typically in one style-dialog is another. I feel that having 2 (visually) > similar properties that interact seem like a bad idea. And on top of that I'm > unconvinced of the actual user need for these properties. > Ok. Thus, we arrive at the conclusion that we have more than one view/opinion on my proposal - that's somehow natural. But, it doesn't seem that anything is unclear in my proposal. Let's vote on it. Regards, Oliver.
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