Hi Mirek, On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:49 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > Compared to competitors, LibreOffice is lagging behind in terms of UX, > and, unfortunately, it seems like relatively little development is > happening in that area, often relegated to GSoC projects and Easy > Hacks, which don't always get picked up.
Of course, attracting resources is always hard. > The UI is one of the most common targets of complaints about > LibreOffice. I'm certain many would be willing to pay a developer to > work on UX-related bugs full-time. We could draw up a Kickstarter > campaign. I'm aware of some funding for a developer to work on some crazy prototyping work for the UI at the moment. Unfortunately he has a pipeline of work that puts that a few weeks out :-) > So, I'm wondering, is there a volunteer developer or a former GSoC > student who might be up to the task? I guess you'd want to talk to Matus, Lanedo, Openismus, Igalia, Collabora and/or any others around the place that might have cycles for that. Be aware that you're talking around Eur 800 / day for these guys - and of course you'd want some sort of concrete plan to make this viable. Seemingly most people want to fund revolutionary improvement - which is going to be of the order of a multi-man-year project (at Eur 150k+ per engineer year). Not incremental improvement that fixes things here and there. Beyond that - I suggest that working with Kendy / getting SUSE hack-week people interested, going via GSOC, etc. would be a good plan. Also - responding rapidly to people who ask question on ux-advise is quite important I think :-) HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise