Doh!! Hey. If anyone still has an old version of 1.14 kicking around, can we fish out the old icons? Maybe set up both sets, and let the user pick? I can see how we could either add a butotn click to the toolbar to use the old icons, or add it to the view menu, or even throw it into the options. *flutters eyelashes*
You know what they say about science. 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. OOo is still a scientific endeavor than an artistic art piece. Rigel --- Johann Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sirs, > > First of all, congratulations for building OO. > I'm one of the software developers in our company and we use OO 1.1.x for > several tasks, we also try to push it to marketing people and others in > our company. > > I recently installed 2.0 Beta and was really a bit shocked about the > appearance, the menu and icon bar especially. > The 1.1 design was really clear, very good for working because of its > exact icons and so on. > > Now I think you've made the same mistake like Microsoft in its Office > Suite 2003 and Windows XP at all: > Designing Icons with millions of colors, using color slides in menu bar > and icon bars, and some icons (bold, italic, invisible characters, ...) > are becoming diffuse. > > In summary : It's very exhausting for the eyes using this 2.0 design, you > cannot use it for hours without getting very tired in contrast to the 1.1 > design. > > Ok, you can say the design of software GUI in general is going this way > (because of Microsoft ?), but is it the right direction at all ? > I think, the new Mickey Mouse design of software is not good the serious > working on computers. > > If you plan to support some kind of skins for OO 2 GUI, please select an > ergonomic one as default, and not one with color slides and so on where > the eyes > do not know where they are on the desktop. But I've not found options for > changing the appearance, if there's only this design in the future I think > it make it > worse pushing your software packet in our company because of this > ergonomic drawbacks. > > > I appeal to think again about the design of menu and icon bars in order to > make a really excellent software package... > > > Thanks + Best Regards, > -- > Johann Schmid > Dipl.-Ing. (FH) > Electr. Development > Software, EM > > KATHREIN-Werke KG > Anton-Kathrein-Straße 1-3 > P.O. Box 100 444 > 83004 Rosenheim, Germany > > Tel.: +49 8031 184-391 > Fax: +49 8031 184-493 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: http://www.kathrein.de > > > > This e-mail is confidential and may contain privileged information.If you > have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > responding to this email and then delete it from your system.The sender > therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the > contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. > We believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are > virus free. You must therefore take full responsibility for virus > checking. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
