I was just saying that even rubbish Office suites like MS Office look better - and therefor feel lighter to use - than OOo, and I think that because OOo is so good, and easy to use, it should have the option of this ribbon (witch is more logical, and easier to use - once the user has gotten used to it) and definitely deserves better looks. for example: Mac have been successfully because of there simplicity, but in the recent OSX they have doubled there popularity because of looks!
do you know ware you can suggest sub-projects on the UI project? 2008/10/23 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Replies interspersed inline. > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:14:32 +0100 > Came this utterance fomulated by Matt Sturgeon to my mailbox: > > > Ok, i see that loads of people don't like change, but wy not just > > include u'switch' button? > > Because it has to be prioritised into all the rest of the programming > needs and budget. > > > > and OOo needs better looks anyway, the gray theme is boring: > > Boring or edgy; someone, somewhere isn't going to like it. > > > even MS Office 2003 has bg images on everything > > OpenOffice.org is not trying to be a Microsoft Office wanna-be. Bad > road to follow; that would result in OO.o always playing catch up, never > being able to lead from the front. What you are sort of saying is "On > this pedestal is Office - lets try to be like it". When you start > exploring the functionality of the programs Office quickly drops from > the pedestal and you are left with nothing to follow and a badly > structured work model. > > So OO.o has it's own work model, though it does look at where Office is > and what they are doing, no homage is paid. The roadmap is laid out and > there is a fixed method for how you can go about influencing it. > Please remember there are limited resources in any opensource project > and eye candy is probably not a high priority over all. > > > and even if bg images are two hard (witch i don't think they would be) > > at least change the bg colour to a nice one - maybe leave it open to > > customization! > > Customisation is built in, see: > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org > but a quick search on 'skin' or 'chrome' reveals nothing. > > Comparing OO.o to Firefox is not good, but i think the reason Firefox > has so many third party skins comes back to XULRunner and Firefox's > simple extensibility. > > > An optional ribbon would be nice, better graphics are necessary. > > Are they really necessary? Will it effect the finished report or thesis > on paper, or just affect how people view the tool they are using. I'm > not poking at you. You are a visual person, but others can and do > have different priorities. It takes all sorts to make a world. People > like you that can and do get involved wind up in the UI project. I'm > sure any time and expertise you can offer them would be welcome. > > http://ui.openoffice.org/ > http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/index.html > http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ui.html > -- > Michael > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall > be well > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
