Hi Krisztian, On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Krisztian Pinter <pin.termina...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all! > > I'm working on this GSoC project: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center > > "Currently, the Start Center (the start screen you get when you start > LibreOffice) is only a static bitmap, with few buttons and links. It would > be useful to present few recently used documents there (as thumbnails), and > do more fancy stuff. > See this overview and WidgetLayout to get more information about the > Widget Layout (this part is actually very similar to the above mentioned > task). Additionally, code for rendering the thumbnails will have to be > introduced, and maybe some code sharing with the new Template Manager will > be needed too." > Sounds good. I was about to say that perhaps you could try to reuse the Template Manager's thumbnail rendering. > > I've already converted the current startcenter to .ui, and it has been > merged to master, but it's still being improved. I'm currently working on > adding thumbnails for recent docs. > > I'd like to request a mockup for the startcenter (with thumbnails for > recent docs), so we can make it look nice and pretty. > I started a whiteboard for it: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Start_Center. > > Kendy, my GSoC mentor, listed these points as his preference: > >* Keep the buttons to start apps some way (but they could be smaller or > organized another way > >* Keep the LibreOffice logo, but the other visual things (like the > shadows etc.) might go from my point of view > >* Make it resizable, so that the screen size is better used (ie. no more > fixed rectangle in the middle of the screen) > I tried to incorporate these into the scope. Take a look at it and feel free to make changes based on what you feel like doing. :) Thanks for working on this! > > Looking forward to your feedback! > > All the best, > Krisztian > > _______________________________________________ > Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list > Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise > >
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