GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 245427
List of heading styles inconsistent in Compose a message dialog
Last modified: 2003-12-05 16:07:33 UTC
In the Compose a message dialog, and in the Properties: Paragraph dialog there are lists of available header styles, as follows: Compose a message dialog, Format > Heading menu - Normal - Preformat - Bulleted List - Roman Numeral List - Numbered List - Alphabetical List - Header 1 - Header 2 - Header 3 - Header 4 - Header 5 - Header 6 - Address Properties: Paragraph dialog - Normal - Pre - Header 1 - Header 2 - Header 3 - Header 4 - Header 5 - Header 6 - Address - Dot item - Number item - Roman item - Alphabeta item These lists should be identical in both places, to avoid confusing the user. Also, some of the style names are misleading (for example header and heading are different in HTML). I think it would be useful if these lists followed HTML terminology more closely. I suggest something like this: - Normal --------separator-------- - Heading 1 - Heading 2 - Heading 3 - Heading 4 - Heading 5 - Heading 6 --------separator-------- - Bulleted List - Alphabetic List - Numbered List - Roman Numeral List --------separator-------- - Address - Preformatted It might also be useful to make submenus, as follows: - Headings > Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Heading 5 Heading 6 - Ordered List > Alphabetic Numbered Roman Numerals
Hi Eugene, Thank you for filing this. It is much to my chagrin that we are still finding these embarassing bugs after three years of polishing the app, but, such is the way of software development, I suppose. :) I am setting the target milestone for this to be 1.6. (Mostly so that it will show up in our planning queries.. I am sure that I can have it fixed before then.) I agree with you that the inconsistency between the two option menus is problematic, and that we would be well advised to use menuitem names which more accurately map to their associated HTML tags. As for your suggestions about reordering, I shall focus on making sure that related menuitems are grouped together, and that it is easily apparent which options may be used in plain text *and* html mode, and which are only relevent to html. At the moment I'm feeling less than excited about introducing submenus, since they complicate menuitem selection. At any rate, I will get back to you soon with a patch. Thanks, Anna
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