Hi T.J. and all the others! Discussing things like tweaking and re-inventing, I forgot about the good defaults and all the things we can do right now. Moreover, Michael pointed towards his "Easy Hacks" developers page that currently lacks some usability stuff [1]. Time to change that?
What is currently missing is a collection of simple tasks that can be prepared to be made available for developers. Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 13:05 -0500 schrieb T. J. Brumfield: > It would also be considerably less work than completely redesigning > the UI from scratch. That is more time that could be dedicated to > improving the project in other ways. So if anybody wants to put some hands on (which would be great), here are some starting points for getting ideas that are already documented in the web. SOURCES Lendo's Issue Collection (very good IMO) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Lendo/Usability OpenOffice.org Issues, Keyword Usability goo.gl/smLR9 (shortened, to avoid lengthly URLs) OpenOffice.org Issues, Tagged ux-ctest goo.gl/pluag (shortened, to avoid lengthly URLs) OpenOffice.org User Experience Todo (rough list) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/ToDo OpenOffice.org Calc Todos http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/To-Dos/Usability Ubuntu Paper Cuts Ubuntu started to collect trivially fixable usability bugs and documented them in their issue tracker. Since OOo is part of Ubuntu, there are also some ideas how to improve it (mainly issues on the Linux platforms). Here is a list which may contain anything: goo.gl/cPzr1 (shortened, to avoid lengthly URLs) Just a last request - if anybody starts to work on that, please let us discuss proposed changes first. So be cautious :-) People may have raised very personal issues that may even have a negative effect on many other users. But if we don't start to look at it, we won't even have improvements. A very good and short statement (thanks Ubuntu!): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut#Who%20is%20the%20%22average%20user%22? Cheers, Christoph [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libreoffice/EasyHacks [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***