Why? There has been some nice ruler rework recently, and so I got a
friendly ping about what had happened to the so called "Comments Ruler
Control" I've proposed years ago when working on the Writer notes (OOo Notes2).
Consequently, I've started the Design Whiteboard "Comments Ruler Control" that contains a rather complete specification for that feature. The basic idea is to provide a new user interface element (next to the ruler) that enables the user to toggle the visbility of the Writer comments. Here is an exemplarily mockup for the case "Ruler Control Expanded" ...
If you want to know more - have a look at the Whiteboard. And if any developer wants to jump in ... that would be really awesome!
Cheers,
Christoph
3 Kommentare:
Great to see movement to improve the handling of comments. The comments ruler control is a great idea!
For the future, I look forward to further improvements to the core of the comments design, e.g. better printing of comments & track changes in the margin.
I'm not sure about the triangle jumping from the left to the right.
Without trying it, to me rotating the triangle down (like typical disclosure triangles in tree views) would probably be more intuitive.
User interface elements "jumping" around often make me nervous ;)
But then, maybe that's just me. A huge improvement compared to current situation, anyway.
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