Style Attributes inspector bug / usability issue

Rachel Cobleigh rcobleigh at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 11:20:19 PST 2007


There's a little annoyance in OmniOutliner that I run into fairly
often, when I copy-and-paste text from some other program into an
OmniOutliner document. The text comes in with the formatting that it
had in the other program, and when I go to the Style Attributes
inspector and I click on those little white-'x'-in-gray-circle icons
to remove the undesirable formatting, I sometimes can't get the GUI to
respond to my clicks. Say, if I click 2 or 3 of those icons
successfully and then go to click on the fourth one, the fourth one
just won't respond. I've tried starting from the bottom of the list of
formatting info and starting from the top, I've tried waiting for a
while between clicks, etc., but the only thing I can do is move the
mouse away and then come back again, and then the GUI responds to the
click on the fourth icon. Is there some delay because it's processing
an earlier click and it has to redraw the contents of the Style
Attributes inspector?

Alternatively, it would be nice to have the option of clicking on such
an icon in the dark gray header for each section in the Style
Attributes inspector, so you could choose to remove all the style
attributes in that section with one click. Or have a user preference
that lets the user tell OmniOutliner to drop certain types of text
formatting (e.g., font face and font size) when pasting in text from
the clipboard, and to adopt the text formatting of the outline item
before it or something.

Thanks,

Rachel


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