Christoph, Yes that is exactly what I had been thinking!! And sure, I'd be glad to help however I can!
Yours Truly, Scott R. Pledger On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 15:24, Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com>wrote: > Hi Scott! > > You asked a tough question ... something we struggled quite some time > within OpenOffice.org. So the question is not _if_ we apply platform > specific elements ... the question is rather what we can share accross > all platforms, because there is no reference implementation. > > Some examples: > * Toolbar color-picker > * New "Slide layout" drop-downs > * Slide sorter in Impress > * Print dialog (on some platforms, there is no reference > implementation) > > To me, this should be something that should be agreed on ... with the > development and marketing to define a "degree of freedom". > > It's already part of the WhatWeNeed list, I've mentioned earlier ... > Collect, clarify and document fundamental questions [...]: > "Platform specific" (respect the platform interaction > guidelines ... e.g. like Mozilla Firefox) vs. "Platform > independence" (work the same way on any platform ... e.g. like > web sites) > > Is this what you had in mind? Would you be interested in driving this > effort (the item "Clarify Marketing Questions")? > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off/WhatWeNeed#Knowledge_and_Requirements > > Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 10:49 -0600 schrieb Scott Pledger: > > My only concern when asking this question is the implementation of any > kind > > of a graphical look and feel - layouts would be the same across > platforms, > > but should the look and feel (things such as the coloring/graphics of the > > application) apply the user's system theme or whether the coloring and > > graphical feel of LibreOffice should be the same across all platforms in > > addition to the layout or if the layout should merely implement the > user's > > native look and allow the system to apply whatever its theme is. > > Just one addition - I usually refer to "look" as the visual style, and > "feel" as the behavior which also includes the workflows of the > software. > > > Yours Truly, > > Scott R. Pledger > > By the way, although we don't get any statistical evidence for users, I > really like these small surveys ... thanks! > > Cheers, > Christoph > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:53, Daniel Merker <daniel.mer...@wayne.edu > >wrote: > > > > > > > > 2011/4/26 Scott Pledger <scottpledger2...@gmail.com>: > > > > Purely out of curiosity, how many people here prefer that the user's > > > > default environment theme (GTK, Qt, etc.) be applied to LibreOffice > > > > versus how many would rather see LibreOffice get its own look > > > > independent of the desktop environment? > > > > > > >From a Core UI stance, LibO should have a consistent look across all > > > platforms; for example, where the toolbar is, what is under each menu, > how > > > use cases are performed. The outer shell should conform to the standard > of > > > the platform; for example, where the max/min/close buttons are, what > order > > > those buttons should appear. IMHO, when you try to please everyone with > > > different versions, in this case based on platforms, of a UI, you tend > to > > > please no one.... > > > > -- > 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
