On Wed, June 3, 2009 16:30, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Thank you, Charles, and other responders. I won't have much email > access for the next eight hours, but I'll read and respond to all your > messages when I'm able. In the meantime, if you'd like to repost my > message to other mailing lists, please go ahead and do it!
Great work Ben - I'll certainly be blogging about this. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html > Thanks, > Ben > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" > <charles-h.sch...@laposte.net > > wrote: > >> >> Alexandro, >> >> >> Le Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:03:02 -0500, >> Alexandro Colorado <j...@openoffice.org> a écrit : >> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Charles-H. Schulz >>> <charles-h.sch...@laposte.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ben, >>>> >>>> I love your idea, and I would like to see it not forgotten >>>> somewhere on the wiki. So we have to work with the actual feature >>>> design process. One way of integrating your views in the OOo >>>> development process is the Renaissance project, but there may be >>>> others, such as the o...@www incubator project. Did you push the >>>> dashboard anywhere with the development team already? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Charles. >>> >>> Hi Chales, I have been workin with Ben on the dashboard idea for quie >>> a while. We tried to pushit on the Google Summer of Code but some >>> issues regarding the volunteer registration stop us from going ahead >>> with him. Also we got people involved from the original team that >>> modified the StartModule (where would be the dashboard) and are >>> working with them. We need people that can make a built or a >>> modification where is easy to load this HTML within the StartModule >>> so we can have the flexibility to work with our implementation. >>> >>> Like Ivan said, we would need more skillsets as we go along with JS >>> and XML and consider elements such as security and other aspects >>> beyond our technical capacity. >>> >>> I think is great that Ben put this idea on marketing since it can >>> generate external interest beyond the people we are working with. >>> Please keep the feedback flowing. :) >> >> I may be wrong but you need to formalize these things a bit: I mean >> that you may want to fill out some specs documents, maybe open a >> project here or shove it into an existing one. I'll try to see how I >> can help. >> >> Best, >> Charles. >> >> >>> >>> >>>> Le 3 juin 09 à 09:43, Ivan M a écrit : >>>> >>>>> >>>>> P.S. I just noticed that you sent this to the marketing list - >>>>> please send a link to the UX list too as there is interest in this >>>>> idea over there as well! >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ivan M <i2initiati...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Ben, all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I always get excited when there's discussion about a dashboard :P >>>>>> >>>>>> Ben, thank you for sharing your design with us! Having the >>>>>> dashboard in HTML is a great idea: just change the CSS and you >>>>>> can get a completely different layout. Plus, the use of HTML and >>>>>> JS could work really well for attracting a broad range of >>>>>> contributors/developers, as you mentioned. There would probably >>>>>> be a lot of XML involved too (e.g. recent file lists). There >>>>>> would also probably be security considerations with JS that might >>>>>> complicate the implementation of this idea - but the potential is >>>>>> huge. >>>>>> >>>>>> Here's a thought that got me thinking about your proposal: it >>>>>> might seem odd to users that they would be able to customize the >>>>>> dashboard so heavily, but not the rest of OOo (and I've seen many >>>>>> suggestions by users saying that OOo should be skinnable). >>>>>> Although this matter is well beyond the scope of the dashboard >>>>>> (and I think that a customizable dashboard is a wonderful idea), >>>>>> it does make me wonder - what if OOo (or at least, some parts of >>>>>> it) could be skinned with CSS (a crazy idea, I know...)? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll add some more comments on your proposal later - I'm short on >>>>>> time these days, but with a juicy topic (and a juicy mockup) like >>>>>> this I just couldn't resist :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Ivan. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure >>>>>> <jbf.fa...@laposte.net> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Le 03.06.2009 03:57, Benjamin Horst a écrit : >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've been working on the Dashboard concept some more and have >>>>>>>> the following semi-functional mockup to share. This would >>>>>>>> appear in the OOo application window where the start center now >>>>>>>> appears. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.laboratory9.com/openoffice/oo_sample.php >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It looks very interesting. I suggest to add direct access to >>>>>>> some help documentation such as FAQ, wiki, "getting started in 3 >>>>>>> pages" for each module (perhaps 3 pages is to long) and complete >>>>>>> guide if available. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Another point : recent documents should show full names, in >>>>>>> order to not have to use mouse to get tooltip with the full >>>>>>> filename. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards >>>>>>> JBF >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos >>>>>>> documents. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>>>>>> dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
