Hi Kay,
What I hear is, that many users and developers seem to be unsatisfied
with OOo's GUI respectively with it's progress, some even seem to be
disappointed with OOo 3 because of that. What I see is, that others
(XAML, XUL, ...) are in principal heading for a scalable approach (not
pixel but vector based, using e.g. cm or inch as the measure),
noticing all those high resolution / high pixel density displays, this
obviously makes sense. Not to forget, that there is a general trend,
and I have to admit, I personally like that, towards transparency and
animations.
I think what I basically want to say is, that there is some pressure
to principally re-work OOo's GUI to stay attractive and to be future
proof. What I am currently doing is, to look around, to listen and to
ask questions what people think what needs to be done, and what they
are currently working on.
For me an other aspect of the user interface is much much more
important, consistency of the UI over the whole office and with the
operating system.
If you look today on the user interface of the different OOo
applications, they look very different. Especially Impress looks totally
different with it's 3 pane UI layout. Furthermore the functionality of
the slide sorter pane is more or less identical with the Navigator. Why
are there two tools in one UI for the same task? Also the Task Pane
could be merged with the Stylist.
An other example are the many different ways, OOo uses too highlight a
selected object. Sometime selected text is inverted, sometimes the
systems highlight color is used and Draw has a totally different way of
painting some green squares around the selected objects.
Or what about the light bulb window, that sometimes pops up over the
lower right corner of the main window. Do you know any system that uses
such help windows?
I know, that removing such quirks makes not so much fun, as implementing
some cool animations. But in my opinion, this is the point that makes a
good user interface. And please, always remind that OOo is a
productivity tool and not a video game.
Best Regards
Jörg
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