Specification BetterDefaults Gridhandling

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Specification Status
Author Christoph Lukasiak (Clu)
Last Change 7. July 2010
Status (Help) Preliminary

Abstract

"Better Defaults", as this effort is called for short, aims to collect suggestions for better default settings in OOo. Impress was first (in accordance with the present focus of project Renaissance) . This is a subproject of Project Renaissance and 'Gridhandling' is the first outcome of it.

References

Reference Document Check Location (URL)
Prerequisites [passed/failed] n/a
Product Requirement, RFE, Issue ID (required) available gh:i111998,i112000,i112001,i112002,i112004,i112005,i112006,i112008,i113957[1]

all issue query

Accessibility Check (required)
See accessibility section for check list
Test case specification (required) [available/not available] <PLEASE ENTER LOCATION HERE>
IDL Specification [available/not available] <PLEASE ENTER LOCATION HERE>
Software Specification Rules n/a n/a
Better Defaults: Gridhandling Suggestion list available Gridhandling Workout
Better Defaults: OOo Suggestion list available Improving OOo Default Settings
Project Renaissance available Thinning out

Contacts

Role Name E-Mail Address
Developer Christian Lippka Christian.Lippka@sun.com
Quality Assurance Wolfram Garten Wolfram.Garten@sun.com
Documentation Uwe Fischer Uwe.Fischer@sun.com
User Experience Christoph Lukasiak Christoph.Lukasiak@sun.com
Renaissance i-Team
Renaissance i-Team

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym / Abbreviation Definition
<WYSIWYG> <What You See Is What You Get>

Detailed Specification

Snap to Guides: 'off' by default => should be 'on' by default
Snap to Object Border: 'off' by default => should be 'on' by default
Large Handles: 'off' by default => should be 'on' by default

Copy when moving: 'off' by default => should be 'on' by default (tools/option/general)

Snap to Grid shortcut: change shortcut from 'ctrl' to 'alt' key

  • also fit ctrl to 'copy when moving'


Rotation Mode: 'off' by default => should be 'on' by default

  • Change rotate button (drawing toolbar) in rotate mode button (on/off)
  • By clicking another object switch back to selection mode again
  • Fit rotation point to every selected object


More fine Grid:

Impress (1inch/9points & 2cm/9point) or after change wording (9points = 10spaces)

  • Draw (0,5inch/9points & 1cm/9points)


Spacing vs. Points: grid subdevision (tools/option/impress/grid) changes from point to space

  • wording changes from: 'point(s)' to 'space(s)'
  • algorithm changed in: space = point +1; starting from 1 (0 not allowed)


Full Width for text in shapes: (menue/format/text/full width) should be 'on' by default

Accessibility

Accessibility is the responsibility of the I-Team, beginning with UX, DEV and QA, to ensure that the following requirements are fulfilled:

  1. Is the feature fully keyboard accessible?
    (Ex: "I can go everywhere and use every function using the keyboard only"

    <START TYPING HERE>
  2. Have I specified visual alternatives for the case that the specified feature includes audio as output?
    <START TYPING HERE>
  3. Are text alternatives for all icons and graphics available?
    <Start typing here>
  4. Don't provide important information in colors alone
    (Ex: marking important information hard coded in red)

    <START TYPING HERE>
  5. Does the specified feature respect system settings for font, size, and color for all windows and user interface elements?
    <START TYPING HERE>
  6. Have I ensured that flash rates do not exceed 2 hertz for blinking text, objects, or other elements? In any case, try to avoid flashing UI elements
    <START TYPING HERE>
  7. Ensure that assistive technology (AT) (like ZoomText or Orca) is able to read everything.
    <START TYPING HERE>

QUESTIONS?

If you need help while designing, implementing or testing the accessibility of the UI, ask/visit:

  1. The accessibility check list at the OpenOffice.org Wiki
  2. accessibility@ui.openoffice.org (The accessibility mailing lists, preferred)
  3. For specific implementation details, architecture: mt@openoffice.org (Malte Timmermann)
  4. For specific UX and testing questions: es@openoffice.org (Éric Savary)


Migration

The Gridhandling default changes belongs to Impress and Draw application.

Configuration

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Help | Configuration Table Template

File Format

<START TYPING HERE --- If this part is irrelevant state a reason for its absence.> Help

Help | File Format Table Template

Open Issues

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