Styles: Single Action, Next Action Spacing
Hello folks.
I'm trying to figure out why OmniFocus won't let me adjust the Single Action and Next Action spacing in the Style preference. I can adjust their parent Actions spacing, and their sibling's Action Groups spacing. All of the Status-Based Styles are likewise locked down. Bug or Feature? |
I think all that is going on here is that OF doesn't allow you have different spacing between actions depending on their status. Probably makes the redisplay code simpler, though I don't have any basis for suggesting that to be a reason.
If you could change them all independently, what would you do? |
Right now I'm just trying to get them so they're spaced *the same* as other items around them!
My Actions are set to Row Spacing: 6 Child Spacing: 4 Child Indent: 16 Next Actions are the same (and unchangeable). But Single Actions are set to Row Spacing: 0 Child Spacing: 0 Child Indent: 16 Making them way tighter than the rest of my list, and it's driving me bonkers. (This is a recent change; I'm unclear what I did or happened that caused this.) |
Do you have many styling changes? You could just hit the reset button and re-apply the ones you want...Sounds a bit like your preferences file might have gotten corrupted somehow, which is a good argument for saving the settings as a theme when you get them "just so" — easier to restore!
I would try changing the Action settings first, to see if they yank the Single Action ones into line. You might keep a copy of your preferences file as it is now to send to the support ninjas. Maybe they can figure out what went bump in the night. |
[QUOTE=whpalmer4;96074]Do you have many styling changes? You could just hit the reset button and re-apply the ones you want...Sounds a bit like your preferences file might have gotten corrupted somehow, which is a good argument for saving the settings as a theme when you get them "just so" — easier to restore![/QUOTE]
I have styled my text rather extensively, and have saved them, and did try resetting; even a reset still has the options greyed out. I'm guessing something got corrupted to cause the numbers to be "off", but they are supposed to be greyed out. [QUOTE=whpalmer4;96074] I would try changing the Action settings first, to see if they yank the Single Action ones into line.[/QUOTE] It certainly looks like it's supposed to, and... [QUOTE=whpalmer4;96074]You might keep a copy of your preferences file as it is now to send to the support ninjas. Maybe they can figure out what went bump in the night.[/QUOTE] I figured out the issue. If you Copy and Paste a style (say, Actions to Single Actions), the target style is reset to some baseline (Row/Child Spacing 0, Helvetica 12, etc.). Definitely a bug, and about to be filed. |
Good detective work! The paste behavior you describe sounds like a bug to me, too.
Yeah, I would expect the numbers are supposed to be greyed out, as I previously theorized. I guess I didn't spell it out, but I thought the reset would put the single action values back to their proper values, not make them editable. Now that you've had a chance to experience the alternative where action spacing varies depending on action type, do you think it is an issue that you can't edit those values independently? |
I'm not sure yet about editing them manually. I think there's a case for it, though I can't yet articulate it, mainly because I can't edit them manually to see if the idea works.
I know when they're "wrong" it's terrible, and being able to adjust them manually to be "right" would have been useful. |
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