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→Write: added critic of the lack of styles as default
* When unformatted text is selected the Style menu appears with only one item visible: None. Unless the user notices the little up arrowhead and moves the cursor up to reveal the rest of the menu, Styles remain a mystery.
* When unformatted text is selected the Style menu appears with only one item visible: None. Unless the user notices the little up arrowhead and moves the cursor up to reveal the rest of the menu, Styles remain a mystery.
** Styles is what separates an effective user of a desktop editing program from the casual user. Anybody having to write something longer than 1/2 a page NEEDS to become an effective user. Essential for high school work, college, any professional document. The default of most software is NOT to focus on styles, thus children and all ages learn setting fonts, sizes, bold, etc, and thus learn wrong. Write is no exception. People who learn wrong need to unlearn before they are able to learn it right. It would be much better to give people the chance to learn things right from the get-go.[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 23:52, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
* When text is selected, and the color palette opened, clicking outside the palette window dismisses the palette. Not a problem so far. However, if the user clicks in the edit window, the previously selected text is deselected and no color applied. Clicking anywhere on the toolbar applies the color and leaves the text selected. It has been suggested in [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08918.html mailing list thread] that adding 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons, as in the color palette in Paint, would solve this problem.
* When text is selected, and the color palette opened, clicking outside the palette window dismisses the palette. Not a problem so far. However, if the user clicks in the edit window, the previously selected text is deselected and no color applied. Clicking anywhere on the toolbar applies the color and leaves the text selected. It has been suggested in [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08918.html mailing list thread] that adding 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons, as in the color palette in Paint, would solve this problem.