Re: [Usability] HIG dialog layout headache

[Tom Conneely <tom conneely17 ntlworld com>]

The openoffice dialog seems to take a similar tact to excel, though 
looks a lot more awkward, with plenty of blank space (why all that space 
between right column and the buttons???). ALso the I feel the layout is 
clumsy, the fact that there is 2 columns with 2 groups in each column 
implies the 2 goups have something in common i.e a subgroup in the 
parent group indicated by the column (to me atleast).

http://www.geocities.com/da_only_geniarse/oOO_paste.png

Interestingly this dialog provides extra functionality in the form of 
"shift cells", no idea what its for but maybe you could look into this 
and see whether its worthwhile for inclusion in gnumeric (though I can't 
fathom a reason why)

I suppose I haven't really added to this discussion other than to say 
don't do it this why, but hey I thought I'd chip in.