Re: [Usability] Text-editing widget

[Stéphane Maniaci <stephane maniaci gmail com>]

Sorry for dumbness.

http://live.gnome.org/Ease ;

Again, you don't have to try it out since it's still subject to many changes.

Stéphane.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Allan Caeg <allancaeg gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Stéphane,
> Can you give us the link to Ease's page? You must have mistyped the link ;)
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Stéphane Maniaci
> <stephane maniaci gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi usability team,
>>
>> I'm Stéphane Maniaci, the summer of code student working on the
>> presentation software, Ease [0]. I wanted to ask you designers about
>> how Ease generally feel, but this is definitely not a good question
>> since lot of changes are happening and the UI is not stable yet, at
>> all.
>>
>> However, I'm currently working on a text-editing widget, that is a
>> widget which preview the text you're going to insert in your document,
>> but also shows you some cool options like a shadow, outline or inset,
>> plus all the sub-options of those (width, blur of the shadow,
>> etc...). Basically, that means a ClutterStage on the left (a canvas),
>> and the whole make-your-text-pretty configuration thing on the left.
>>
>> I came up with a _very_ basic mockup of this widget [1] but :
>> 1. I don't know if it's good ;
>> 2. I don't really know how to implement it (GtkBox, GtkTable,
>> GtkExpander?).
>>
>> So if you designers have a little time to spare, I would appreciate
>> your ideas and feedback about that. If that is of any help, you can
>> look at the Photoshop text dialog [2].
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Stéphane.
>>
>> [0] : http://live.gnome.org
>> [1] : http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/348/textwidget.png
>> [2] :
>> http://www.photoshopessentials.com/images/type/effects/gold/layer-style-dialog-box.jpg
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