Hi Andrew, I don't think the developer team plans to support Windows 8 Metro anytime soon, so any work on it would be futile right now. Write to the UX advice mailinglist libreoffice-ux-adv...@lists.freedesktop.org to make sure.
2012/4/12 Alberto Delgado <alberto...@gmail.com> > Hello, my name is Alberto Delgado, i'm new here so please correct me > if i do something wrong. > > Windows 8 is a few months away from launching into the market, i have > installed the consumers preview on my computer, and looking for a free > alternative to MS Office i installed LibreOffice. The program works > perfectly > but it's completely... weird in W8 due to the extreme redesign in the UI. > > I believe that it's a great opportunity for LibreOffice to enter the W8 > marketplace, it would direct many users away from MS Office 2012 > and into LibreOffice. > > However, with the current design of the program it just won't work, > i have been using Windows 8 for a while, so i can start drafting > how the program could look like to be in tone with the Windows 8 UI. > However i am not a graphic designer so i can not really make the graphics > for the program, but i can design the basic UI. > > If you believe this can be done and are interested in designing the > interface for > the Windows 8 app, the best way to go is to try Windows 8 and get a grasp > of > how apps should work and look like. > > Download Windows 8 Consumer preview: > http://windows.microsoft.com/es-ES/windows-8/consumer-preview > > "Metro Style design guidelines" > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh781237 > > > Alberto Delgado > alberto...@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 > > -- 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
