[libreoffice-design] Fw: [libreoffice-website] Redesigning the website
FYI Charles. - Message Transféré - Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 16:56:42 +0100 De: "Charles-H. Schulz" À: Cc: Sujet: [libreoffice-website] Redesigning the website Hello, The time has come for us to work on a new and improved web site for LibreOffice. While it served us well for several years already, it has also shown some downsides and people tend to complain more. Because of this the board has decided to start a website redesign project and as such the first thing that needs to be clarified is to define the scope of this website redesign. Technically speaking we will continue using our SilverStripe platform; we won't pick a new CMS (they are more or less the same for what needs to be done). We will not be targetting any of the current development and communications platforms: gerrit, git repos, the wiki, the mailing lists etc. fall out of the scope of our discussion. For practical reasons, so do the templates and the extensions sites. What needs to be redesigned then falls under three categories: * the "design" itself (understand: the theme, the general look of the website) * the content. We may reuse some of it as there are certainly some good bits available, but we will also reorganize the way we think about the general presentation of the website. In this regard the discussion about how to engage users to the LibreOffice community and the resulting survey that has just been launched will help on this matter. But we obviously need to think about the landing page. * while the technical bits themselves are not covered for this specific aspect, we would need to think about the whole download experience and the download page itself. Requirements: that's the nice part :-) - we will have a test environment with a SilverStripe instance to build out the website. - designers are welcome: this will be a key part of the project. The board has published a job posting on this a few days ago. General comments: This redesign is very much an end-user focused initiative and as such a marketing need. I must stress again that this isn't a project where we decided to overhaul the online development and collaborative work tools. This is rather the opportunity to develop a nice looking, clear front facing website for LibreOffice. Another element that should not be forgotten is to make sure the Native-Lang communities are not forgotten and are included in this redesign. I'm happy to work not just Christian Lohmaier here but with everyone who'd like to help. Thanks! -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Hi Kendy Jan Holesovsky wrote (06-11-13 13:06) The thing is that now, thanks to the great Krisztian's work, the start center is just an .ui file that _anyone_ can edit in glade to make it nicer. I'd really like people here to understand that we have made a huge effort in the code base (and it is still continuing until we erase I understand the great work that has been done and that there are more/ relatively easy ways to improve how it looks now :) And I'm really sorry that I did not give enough credits to all the good work from Krisztian and you and other. the last .src, and convert it to .ui) so that it is much easier for anybody in the design team to go, and just fix anything that looks ugly or does not behave as it should. Please, PLEASE, start using this power - just grab an .ui file and start playing. I would love to, but alas I'm not able to do that any time soon. Cheers, -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
You need to add the LibreOffice catalog to Glade (see Glade Settings), it lives in extras/source/glade. Am 06.11.2013 18:09, schrieb Pedro: Hi Kendy Jan Holesovsky wrote BTW - you do not have to download the file from the repository, you can just edit the startcenter.ui in your installation of the daily build, restart LibreOffice, and see your results immediately. No iteration through developers necessary - you have the power to make it behaving perfectly, and send me the resulting .ui for integration :-) It sounded too good to be true :) I got Glade for Windows 3.14.2 (and it works too! :) ) However, opening startcenter.ui pops the error message "Failed to load C:\Program Files\LibreOfficeDev 4\share\config\soffice.cfg\sfx\ui\startcenter.ui. The following required catalogs are unavailable: LibreOffice" Hope this helps :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Welcome-graphics-for-the-Startcenter-in-4-2-tp4077497p4081747.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Re: Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Hi Kendy Jan Holesovsky wrote > BTW - you do not have to download the file from the repository, you can > just edit the startcenter.ui in your installation of the daily build, > restart LibreOffice, and see your results immediately. No iteration > through developers necessary - you have the power to make it behaving > perfectly, and send me the resulting .ui for integration :-) It sounded too good to be true :) I got Glade for Windows 3.14.2 (and it works too! :) ) However, opening startcenter.ui pops the error message "Failed to load C:\Program Files\LibreOfficeDev 4\share\config\soffice.cfg\sfx\ui\startcenter.ui. The following required catalogs are unavailable: LibreOffice" Hope this helps :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Welcome-graphics-for-the-Startcenter-in-4-2-tp4077497p4081747.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Hi Cor, Michel, Cor Nouws píše v Ne 27. 10. 2013 v 18:00 +0100: > > I propose to mix those 2 points : > > - revert the code of the new start center : LO4.2 should keep the > > LO4.1 start center > > - start a new process to design a new new start center : > > [...] > > The biggest problem IMO at the moment is the appearance. It's off-puting. I am late to the party it seems, but I'd really like to address this, because I believe this is misunderstanding we should fix :-) > If that cannot be fixed in time I would say: your step 1. The thing is that now, thanks to the great Krisztian's work, the start center is just an .ui file that _anyone_ can edit in glade to make it nicer. I'd really like people here to understand that we have made a huge effort in the code base (and it is still continuing until we erase the last .src, and convert it to .ui) so that it is much easier for anybody in the design team to go, and just fix anything that looks ugly or does not behave as it should. Please, PLEASE, start using this power - just grab an .ui file and start playing. In the case of the start center, there is a bit of additional development work necessary to make it look really beautiful [eg. to get the green background for the buttons for example]; but if anybody here provided me with .ui that has the buttons at the right places, with the right descriptions etc. according to the Mateusz's friend's design, I could focus on that harder pieces only, and I could even have time for additional stuff like single click to open the document etc. The file in question is here: sfx2/uiconfig/ui/startcenter.ui [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sfx2/uiconfig/ui/startcenter.ui] Glade (if you are not on Linux - where you most probably have it already) is here: https://glade.gnome.org/ BTW - you do not have to download the file from the repository, you can just edit the startcenter.ui in your installation of the daily build, restart LibreOffice, and see your results immediately. No iteration through developers necessary - you have the power to make it behaving perfectly, and send me the resulting .ui for integration :-) All the best, Kendy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
