Oh, I see! Well here are links to it: http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Concept.pdf http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Concept.odg
Thanks! Scott R. Pledger On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:11, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/4/20 Scott Pledger <scottpledger2...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, this is my first time proposing something to such an important > Open > > Source project, so I hope I'm doing this correctly. > > I've had this idea for a while now and I wanted to see what everyone here > > thought of it, so here it goes! > > > > Its based on two simple premises. First, I noticed that monitors are > > getting wider but the documents we type up are still vertically oriented. > > Secondly, I find floating toolbars to be extremely cumbersome. So I > decided > > I'd try to tackle both of these issues in a simple, easy-to-use manner. > > Attached to this email is the concept that I currently have (or at least > > the beginnings of it). So, here's my plan: > > > > 1. Have a single toolbar at the top that contains actions that can be > > used no matter what application you're using. > > 2. Move any additional toolbars to the right hand side and organize > them > > into groups based on what the user currently has selected. So let's > say > > you're editing a Writer document and you have some text selected that > is in > > a Table. You would have 3 primary categories (at the top of the > right-hand > > part of the screen): Document, Table, and Text. 'Document' is always > > present and handles document-wide settings. Table might contain > > subcategories of Row, Column, Cell, and Display. All of these would > contain > > toolbar items to modify aspects of these subcategories. Text then, > might > > contain Font, Paragraph, and Section as subcategories. And so on and > so > > forth. I also had the idea that hovering over a primary category or a > > subcategory might emphasize what would be affected in the main document > area > > by shading everything else, but I also know that that would not be a > > necessity. For the purposes of the design, this right-hand area can be > > called the context tool panel. > > 3. Move the menus to the left-hand side, placing them above whatever is > > typically the left side of any given LibreOffice application. > (Impress/Draw > > -> Slides, etc.). Clicking one of these would then cause a panel to be > > displayed categorizing items in the same manner as the context tool > panel > > which would contain the different actions the user can take. > > 4. Possibly: Allow for LibreOffice to run everything from a single > window > > by having a tab row at the top of the screen. (I'm still not sold on > this > > idea, so let me know what you think.) > > > > When it came to actually designing this new layout, I tried to pull from > the > > current LibreOffice icons as much as possible, mainly because I think > they > > are absolutely awesome! > > > > Also, I do want to be forthcoming - I'm no UX or Design professional. > I'm a > > Computer Science major in the US, but I think that this kind of layout > can > > not only give LibreOffice one of the most unique and (in my mind) usable > > User Interfaces on the planet, but I also think that it can help > LibreOffice > > to be the very best office suite on the planet. Also, let me know if > this > > was the wrong place to post - like I said, I'm new to this particular > > project! > > > > Thanks! > > Scott Pledger > > > > This mailing list do not allow attachments, so if you sent one we > cannot see it ;) > The concept you present is quite similar to calligra suite interface: > http://www.calligra-suite.org/ > which, I agree, has very good concepts and a great potential. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
