On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:21 AM, l x <lxnice...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm Xin Li, I have been an UX designer for Symphony and I'm very glad to >> join ooo-users mailing list. I'd love to focus on AOO user experience work >> in the future. > > As long as you don't want to turn AOO into Symphony, it's fine with > me. In other words... you have to keep in mind that AOO users come > from an OpenOffice.org background, and are used to its user interface. > If they liked Symphony more they'd be Symphony users, not OO.o > > Translation: any changes to the AOO UI should be incremental and > carefully thought and a radical redesign avoided at all costs. > > And for heaven's sake, do not repeat Microsoft's "Ribbon UI" disaster. > CUA exists for a reason. :) > > FC >
Hello, Xin. I went from OpenOffice.org to Symphony, then to LibreOffice. Symphony had the best UI by far, even on my KDE setup. The reason that I went to LibreOffice after a short stint with Symphony was due to document compatibility issues, specifically opening encrypted ODS documents and MS Office compatibility. So you were responsible for the part of Symphony that I liked best, and that I miss! I suspect that other's fear of changing the AOO UI is due to the changes that Microsoft made to their office suit, not due to IBM's changes to OO.o. I encourage you to continue your work on the UI, quite in the direction that you took Symphony. I wonder why you choose to associate with AOO as opposed to LibreOffice. I could make much speculation, but rather than do such I would love to hear your reasons. I am excited about the latest AOO release, but I see the pace of LibreOffice development and that is very motivating. I do not see AOO and LO as rivals, actually I think that competition in the FOSS office suites will push them both to develop better than they would have independently, however I wonder if the FOSS resources are being spread too thin. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-h...@incubator.apache.org
