Andrew On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:11 -0400, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> Okay, so I found out the other day that we are looking into making an online > office suit like Google docs and an android/iOS App of LibreOffice. This is > nice but there is one problem... our desktop programs still needs a lot of > work! Why are we spending the time making completely new Office Suits when > the main application that people are going to create documents is still > going to be on the desktop. Now I know that they said that it is supposed to > come out at the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013 but unless there is a major > overhaul on the desktop edition then it will out shine the current suite. Is > there any push to making a new UI for the desktop. It seems as though Mirek > and I are the only ones that are even interested in making the damn thing > look good. > > LibreOffice has come a long way since I first downloaded OpenOffice many > years ago. It is faster, there are less bugs, but it still looks like crap. > If the UI does not change soon(as in two years ago) there is no point in > doing any of this. the banners, web design, icons all of the this stuff we > the design team do for the suite is all pointless unless people are > attracted to the Office suite and want to use it. > > We have a better Office Suite but it looks like crap right now, and people > won’t give it a second glance because of this even if the suite is free or > not. We need to get the Dev team working in our direction, if we don't they > will just keep fixing bugs and adding feature that no one will even know is > there because its hidden in the background under some menu that no one even > bothers to look through. > > It is my belief that this should be our one and only goal for the following > months. Very little should be done to LibreOffice until the New UI is > implemented. As of right now I think that we should be looking at Mirek's > "Citrus UI" as it is the most complete, looks good, and once you get it will > work better than anything that I have ever seen. Every single bit of > software should work like Citrus. > While UI issues are important, we need to address the Android/iOS market or risk being marginalized in the long term. Also, there is no reason that we can not work on both the desktop UI and other versions. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
