Hi Michael, On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com>wrote:
> 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 :-) > That sounds great. What will they be prototyping? > > > 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. > Incremental improvement might sound minor, but it can make huge differences. Having the Hidden Items Menu [1] implemented, for example, would allow us to radically change the default toolbar setup while making sure that people accustomed to the old arrangement can easily find the commands they need. > > Beyond that - I suggest that working with Kendy / getting SUSE > hack-week people interested, going via GSOC, etc. would be a good plan. > Yup -- will continue to do that as well. > Also - responding rapidly to people who ask question on ux-advise is > quite important I think :-) > of course :) [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62079
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