>Changing icons in minor versions is probably not a good idea. Yeah I agree.
>Changing the floppy Icon has outdated ALL books about OpenOffice/LibreOffice that have been written, >including textbooks. Such changes might happen in major versions, always allowing the users to use the old >theme, but a forced changed disconnects the products from all the efforts and materials that have been >made to support its distribution... and in many cases makes it unusable. EVEN for countries in the third world, relying on textbooks, dead documents, for a software which is very much alive makes little sense. The future is here, why not take it and use it at once. Free wiki's are everywhere. Wikia.com is a great place to start. Relying on textbooks just won't cut it in 2012. >In Cambodia, OpenOffice is used in all the school system... considering changing to LibreOffice with icons >that are different than the ones in the official textbook is just not possible, it would just create lots of >confusion for teachers and students, and that is exactly what we do not need. The system might change to a >new interface when it wants.... but not when LibreOffice developers decide to change, it is just not possible >to print new textbooks. Yet, I do see your point that you are trying to comply with the legacy of OpenOffice. We all know how legacy dependency can hurt a software project. In particular a project where competition is intense and competitors are using dirty tricks. But okay I won't entertain the idea to ditch break with this legacy, for now. But I still believe that the user interface *NEEDS* more work and both finegrained pixel-hunts as well as moving away from the MS Office-2000 style. With the best of intentions -A On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Javier Sola <li...@khmeros.info> wrote: > Changing icons in minor versions is probably not a good idea. > > Changing the floppy Icon has outdated ALL books about > OpenOffice/LibreOffice that have been written, including textbooks. Such > changes might happen in major versions, always allowing the users to use > the old theme, but a forced changed disconnects the products from all the > efforts and materials that have been made to support its distribution... > and in many cases makes it unusable. > > In Cambodia, OpenOffice is used in all the school system... considering > changing to LibreOffice with icons that are different than the ones in the > official textbook is just not possible, it would just create lots of > confusion for teachers and students, and that is exactly what we do not > need. The system might change to a new interface when it wants.... but not > when LibreOffice developers decide to change, it is just not possible to > print new textbooks. > > Cheers, > > Javier > > > On 2/15/12 7:39 PM, firstname lastname wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Guys the icons are one of the key features of Libre Office's interface. >> Some of the stock icons on the Libre Office default theme need some more >> work I feel. >> >> OPEN - this icon is really grey and dull >> SAVE - okay, so the floppy is gone. I would have loved to keep it, but I >> won't get into that. >> But if you ARE going for a green downwards arrow, it needs to be cleerer >> than this. >> >> DOCUMENT AS EMAIL - This feature is really reduntant and clutters up the >> user experience. >> >> PDF ICON - The export to PDF icon is not clear enough. It needs to say PDF >> in MASSIVE >> letters, not some text you can almost not read. >> >> >> These are my comments to the icons in the current interface. >> >> But why can't we create an interface that is really inviting to newer >> users, >> which does not acommodate to the users with conservative preferences. >> >> Pick up any MacOSX application and they are mostly so inviting and "fun" >> to >> use. >> Why can't Libre Office be that? Massively larger icon-toolbars is a start, >> and shouldn't >> be very hard to make. I have the pixel-space available for this on my >> screen. Do you? >> >> Best of regards, >> A >> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+help@**documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**documentfoundation.org/www/**discuss/<http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
