Issue 79618

Summary:	The new title page dialog is not generic enough
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	nmailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	caolanm, issues
Version:	OOo 2.2.1	Keywords:	needmoreinfo, oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description nmailhot 2007-07-14 11:09:04 UTC

The new title page dialog is not generic enough
It assumes the only need is to have one run of special pages at the start of a
document. Actual needs can be more complex:
1. several runs of special pages at document start (editorial pages followed by
title pages)
2. a run of special pages at the end of the document (annexes)
3. or even a run of special pages in the middle of the document (the only need I
personaly never had)

The dialog should be modified to allow insertion of page runs with special
formatting at any point of the document

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-07-16 09:42:08 UTC

I don't know what you mean with "new title page dialog"? How can I reach it in
Writer?

Comment 2 nmailhot 2007-07-16 10:21:59 UTC

It's very new, not translated yet and only present in my Fedora-Devel OpenOffice
version, so I suppose it's a OOo 2.3.0 bit

I found an online reference there
http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2007/07/03/title-page-dialog-mockup/#comment-39194

Comment 3 michael.ruess 2007-07-16 11:50:06 UTC

Yes, I see. This is a fedora-only implementation (done by a guy of the fedora-team).
This is not part of the official build, so please forward any bug reports to fedora.

MRU->FL: maybe this could be a really good thing for us. Such an UI for making
the page-style-handling much more conveient has been proposed in different RFE's
(see issue 7065, issue 16877, issue 17203 and some others).

Comment 4 caolanm 2007-07-16 18:58:51 UTC

I'm only poking this idea around before I bother upstream with it. Nevertheless
I deliberately did not set out to make an uber-dialog that can do everything
:-), but a dialog that directly addresses the faq of "how to make a title page",
sticking in the other stuff would really complicate things.