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=== Color management ===
 
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A nice color handling could look like this:
 
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=== Reasonable default formats ===
 
=== Reasonable default formats ===

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  • should be aligned to well-known shortcuts and behaviour
  • should be consistent throughout all modules

I already wrote a proposal for the harmonization of shortcuts in respect to

Format style and Format style catalog

Format style and Format style catalog

  • should be consolidated into one compound dialog window
  • should be unified throughout all modules (in terms of naming)
  • all controls / functions need to be accessible with keys in order to allow quick changes
  • should represent the format itself
  • should emphasize the hierarchy from the beginning

A nice visual Format Style Dialog could look like this:

Freehand-object-format.png

Color management

It is a well known issue that the color dialog should be enhanced for

  • easy choice of attractive harmonized color palettes
  • easier setup and handling of colors
  • better reflection of the different color selection schemes (RGB, CMYK, Pantone, HKS etc)

A nice color handling could look like this:

Freehand-color-selection.png

Reasonable default formats

The default formats are not obeying the "laws" of properly typeset texts.

Headings, for example are neither set bold nor are they set in italics / slanted. The only allowed emphasis is the modification of the text size—the exception proves the rule here. A reasonable default formats for headings—besides the fact that chapter numbering should be turned on by default and should have a nice basic numbering style—would be

  • Heading1: 120 %
  • Heading2: 110 %
  • Heading3: 105 %
  • Heading4: 100 %

Same applies for number formats. Percentages have to have a space between the number and the percent sign. The same applies to plus and minus. Reasonable formats would be:

#,##0.00;[red]- #,##0.00
0.0 %;[red]- 0.0 %

OpenOffice.org Calc

OpenOffice.org Draw / Impress

There is no real reason in having separate names for one powerful module—otherwise we could end up with OpenOffice.org Letter, OpenOffice.org Protocol etc.

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