2011/1/17 Paulo José <paul...@gmail.com> > On 17-01-2011 18:31, Paulo José wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm the mock-ups creator. It's the firt time that I use a mail list like >> that and english is not my own language, so I'm not sure if I'm doing it >> right. >> > I wonder what you mean by that? Are you the original author of the DevianArt mockup?
Well just wondered if you have seen the KOffice interface and what is your thoughts that they (we) could improve. here is an example: http://www.koffice.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/kpresenter-slides-sorter.png Beside of the pane toolboxes, whcih are seen in KOffice and other suites like Apple's iWorks as well as Symphony. Is there any uptake on having these models as opposed of the traditional toolbar? I was never a fan of floating toolbars, they got in the way of work and often are not needed immediately after. So it becomes more a distraction than an aid. > >> First, thank you Animesh Meher for starting this threat. >> >> I totally agree with Zaphod for a decent discussion on the LibO's UI. And >> the Microsoft's mistake is a good guideline to help this process. It been >> said, I would like to help you if it's possible. I'm not a professional >> designer, but I'm a Computer Science student and art is part of my whole >> live. I worked some years with Corel Draw and Photoshop and the last 5 years >> with Blender, Inkscape (1.000.000x better than Corel) and Gimp. >> >> I'm a big Blender Foundation fan and when they were working on a completly >> new interface for Blender (my guess it was over 2008) many people has afraid >> of what would be it. The first releases was very simple and disgusting, >> since it was a big change and "everything" should be relearned. There was >> many noise on it for months. But finally, in 2009,the Blender Foundation >> showed a polished interface, very very different from the original one. >> Users become to apreciate it and to learn more about it. Today, the new >> interface is the think I most apreciate in Blender: it's the top of >> customization, it's beautiful, it's completely usable. But there's no >> perfect UIs, so they keep changing it to get closer to what the users want. >> And the users *really* discuss about it, i.e. in the BlenderArtists forum. >> >> I really hope to see this process of reconstruction happening to >> LibreOffice. Since its a revival of the closed OpenOffice, I see a big >> potential to become a highlight office suite on Linux desktops. But I see >> the need of a important refresh on UI. Just like Blender did. >> >> Well, I'm sure it's over me, but I'm here if you need of my efforts. I'm >> not capable to code satisfastorily in C, Java or Python yet, but I hope this >> halfyear I'll become to learn how to do that. Right now I just know HTML, >> CSS and basic programing. >> >> Kudos for the LibO development team! >> ~Paulo José >> >> "Zaphod Feeblejocks" wrote: >> I'm all for a decent discussion on the UI, and appreciate the comment >> on the >> side-bar. >> Could the current top-bar with icons etc be made moveable (just as the >> Win 95 >> start bar >> was, when I moved to the side it by accident and couldn't get it back >> to the >> bottom.... ah, >> memories...) >> >> However, we need to avoid Microsoft's mistake of forcing their Ribbon >> on >> people, without >> letting them have a 'Classic' interface. (1) the Ribbon lacks >> consistency; (2) >> Office 2007 >> had 60% global market share in summer 2010 - a failure by Microsoft's >> standards. Office >> 2003 had 20% - many of whom were Ribbon refusenicks. The other 20% was >> a >> steadily >> growing OOo. >> >> Granted, the current LibO/OOo interface looks dated, but people know >> their way >> round it - at >> least the know how to find the things they use. Some things are far >> too clumsy >> (e.g. mail- >> merging). A sudden change would drive people (well, me) back over to >> OOo. >> >> Let's reach a proper concensus. >> >> -- >> Paulo José O. Amaro >> Computer Science Student >> Federal University of São João del-Rei >> WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior >> Blogger / casatwain.com >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
