Hi Alex, let me quickly comment them ...
Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2011, 21:57 +0200 schrieb alexander.wi...@zoho.com: > Hi all, > > I've collected several ideas regarding the look of LO. Some of them are > inspired by word and I think it wouldn't be too hard to realize them. > There's a short summary with a few examples in this document: > http://ubuntuone.com/7m7AXgeh7OIwGBiCOHAjGh Thanks for the visualization ... > 1) First of all, I think it's time to change the default formatting and > coloring of text, shapes and tables. It doesn't have to be > extraordinary, but some polish would be nice. True. Two different activities here * on libreoffice-ux-discuss, Olivier and others discussed fonts standardization (a bit different issue, but touches the defaults) * Cedric (Writer dev) wanted to work on the styles and the stylist in general. Concerning the former, a German guy offered his help. Furthermore, on the developers list there is a recent thread called "[Libreoffice] Styles cleanup & removing option page std fonts." So, you may simply jump in :-) I already provided some input concerning the types of documents being written. > Additionally would it be > useful if the user could define alternating colors for tables and maybe > even export all this to a xml file or something for easy exchange. True, that's known ... incl. the need for table styles. But an Easy Hack for that would be nice. I didn't have a look whether an issue for that exists. > 2) Pressing "Ctrl" while resizing a picture or shape should keep the > ratio, like e.g. in Inkscape Mmh, "Shift" already does that ... > 3) If possible, the markup-language input for formulas should be optional Ongoing work called "Visual Formula Input" ... has been discussed some months ago on the dev list. If you want to have a look, enable the "experimental (unstable) features" in Tools - Options - General. I assume it might help to test the feature and provide feedback (but we should ask the dev first). > 4) I wonder how useful the text border actually is. We could achieve a > cleaner look by simply disabling it by default Well, I got already almost killed at the conf for my agreement to minimize the borders :-) It's ongoing work by Cedric, who worked on the Headers/Footers: http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=818 My specification is here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Writer_SpecialIndicators#Document_Margin_Design Test it in one of the daily builds :-) > 5) The handles for resizing and rotating look rather dated. They should > be replaced by some squares/circles filled with a nice gradient. I think devs will be happy to get the graphics to implement them. As far as I remember, the elements are rather simple graphics (but we may ask Thorsten, who mentioned them - if I remember well enough). But, there are already "3D" and "flat" handles in LibreOffice. Switching by (Draw) View - Toolbars - Options - Simple Handles (off). > 6) There should be some nice borders (e.g. polaroid-style) that could > easily be applied to imported graphics Sure - but do you mean to apply them during importing, or applying them afterwards (being interchangable), or do you mean using frame styles? > What do you think? Some of this might not be trivial to implement, but > in my opinion it would be worth the effort. Should I forward the mail to > the devs? I hope it helped a bit. A side note: given your proposals I notice (and that's great, as I mentioned recently), developers do care about such stuff. I can only recommend to subscribe to the developers list and to join to test the daily builds. Cheers, Christoph -- 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
