GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 583327
Subscript and superscript buttons not on toolbar
Last modified: 2009-06-29 04:44:11 UTC
I found only one way how to get subscript and superscript - using Ctrl-_ and Ctrl-^. I suppose it should be posible through some buttons or menu (as in Abiword "extra toolbar"). Also the font size of subscript and superscript should be reduced by 70% or even better by some user defined value. Other information:
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report. Note that we are not changing the font size when moving to super and or subscript. As you noted, whatever adjustment we choose some users will disagree. One can easily change the font size to the desired value.
Thank you for that, good work. I hope, sometime I'll find some time to improve it by myself too.
Super and supscripts are now also reduced to 75% (that should make at least some users happy.) For this to work properly an updated version of goffice is also needed.
Reopening. The buttons weren't on the toolbar for a good reason. Try starting Gnumeric with "--geometry=800x600+1+1" (after my latest fix so it actually works) and you will see items like foreground/background drop off the end and into the overflow menu. These items are much more important than superscript/subscript. Hence I think this change gave us a poorer GUI. If we had a way of assigning priorities to the toolbar items, the least important ones could go away first, but right now I don't think we have that.
Morten, can we but the superscript/subscript buttons at the end of the menu? Personally, I haven't seen anybody coloring any cells while I have seen them trying to use super and sub scripts.
1) Buttons for indent, borders and background/foreground colouring indeed 'fall-off' the tool bar with the default window size. However, on window maximize all buttons are visible. 2) This comes down to an issue of personal preference I think. For me the formatting buttons (money, decimals, etcetera..) are quite useless. I actually would prefer the border and colouring buttons to be visible instead. When faced with such issues one should inevitably choose a set-up that is useful for the majority of users. Recent version of Excel group these buttons in 'panel' parts: font operations, alignment and then the formatting. Mimicking their order (which is also what would make the most sense to me) is: - Font name - Font size - Superscript - Subscript - Bold - Italic - Underline ------------------ - Borders - Background colour - Foreground colour ------------------ - (3 alignment buttons) - (2 indent buttons) - Horizontal center across selection - Merge - Unmerge ------------------- (Format buttons in their current order: money, percentage, etcetera ...)
I can see the point of the toolbar being long for those that like or can only have small windows. But it is silly for those who use large windows to have a primarily empty toolbar. (For me the standard toolbar is frequently half empty.) So I removed the sub/super script buttons from the format toolbar and added a second long format toolbar, that is initially hidden. Users can use the View-toolbar menu to switch to that one if they so desire. Fo rht elong format toolbar I used the order of items suggested by Almer.
Looks fine, but perhaps we should change the View->Toolbars menu to list the format toolbar as none, short, or long. Certainly not both.
We have to fix that menu anyways (see 587250).