Hi Rob,
I'm not sure why you chose to include my comments in your reply. I
don't see the relationship between my comments and yours.
On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Rob Clement wrote:
Douglas St.Clair wrote:
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
and OOo needs better looks anyway, the gray theme is boring: ...
at least change the bg colour to a nice one - maybe leave it open
to customization!
Apple hires a fair number of creative types (musicians, artists,
etc) who provide the coders with help in making the interface
'pretty'. If an open source project is going to get more creative
then some way of attracting these people to the project and
integrating them into the process is needed. That's a management/
administrative hurdle that is certainly doable I just don't see the
interest or will to do it.
Now on the other hand even if the interface/appearance is as boring
as hell if the product is (a) reliable as hell and (b) has well
thought out and really efficient interfaces, from the user's
perspective, I think the product will be a world beater.
As a personal comment OO has the look and feel of a product that
was designed by a coder not an artist or a human factors engineer.
Maybe those who keep on harping about this pointless (IMHO) MS
ribbon should fund the development of either an OpenOffice extension
to perform the task so those of us who do not want it are not
lumbered with downloading it or go off and create a new OOo branch
called OOo ribbon. This discussion seems a waste of effort. Those
who started it should get some clear idea about how much it would
cost to do and be willing to fund it.
Thanks
Rob
--
St. Doug, Tigger and Puppy in our memory.
Tir na nOg
Wilton, NH USA
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