Re: [discuss] Re: Professional Office...
As you are not subscribed, you may have missed this message. Matt Needles wrote: Volker Jung wrote: Perhaps you didnt understand the intention behind my posting: I want OO to beat MS... So do we, but it won't happen by making picayune, derogatory remarks about the programmers or the product. Do something constructive about it. Can you, or are you inspired to draw icons that are able to be liked? But I cant deny that - just for example - ALL the symbols look like beeing drawn by programmers. Im a programmer myself and know that programmers most often dont have the inspiration to draw symbols that are able to be liked. I am also a programmer, but I also consider myself a kind of graphic designer, so I don't complain about the new icons. If I didn't like them, I'd offer some new ones. Your remarks about programmers are insulting, by the way. By the way: I follow the development of OO since the days of StarOffice beeing under the control of Star... NOTHING has changed since years You obviously have not seen the new 2.0 work. Before you continue this attitude, you need to look at the new version, which, as I said, has been extensively reworked in the UI area. It is NOT designed by children doing their first steps. All the icons were re-drawn, and look very nice. (despite functionality, but thats NOT all a program needs to reach the masses). For example it starts with standard option to draw a grey rectangle around a new word-document. I hate this rectangle because of expecting a WYSIWYG-program. I just dont get that silly grey rectangle on any normal piece of paper. This option has to be a additional - not a standard feature. Otherwise you turn a WYSIWYG-program into bullshit that has to be turned into WYSIWYG first... Nothing people really like. And, please, refrain from profanity on this public forum. BIG SNIP 8---8 Matt Needles OOo Volunteer tester/coach - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/tips/ooo_tips_tricks.html To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Professional Office...
As you are not subscribed you may have missed this post. Alexandro Colorado wrote: What is unprofessional about my openoffice.org: http://es.openoffice.org/files/documents/73/2653/ooo_gnome.png -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/tips/ooo_tips_tricks.html To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Professional Office...
What is unprofessional about my openoffice.org: http://es.openoffice.org/files/documents/73/2653/ooo_gnome.png -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Quoting Matt Needles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Volker Jung wrote: Perhaps you didn´t understand the intention behind my posting: I want OO to beat MS... So do we, but it won't happen by making picayune, derogatory remarks about the programmers or the product. Do something constructive about it. Can you, or are you inspired to draw icons that are able to be liked? But I can´t deny that - just for example - ALL the symbols look like beeing drawn by programmers. I´m a programmer myself and know that programmers most often don´t have the inspiration to draw symbols that are able to be liked. I am also a programmer, but I also consider myself a kind of graphic designer, so I don't complain about the new icons. If I didn't like them, I'd offer some new ones. Your remarks about programmers are insulting, by the way. By the way: I follow the development of OO since the days of StarOffice beeing under the control of Star... NOTHING has changed since years You obviously have not seen the new 2.0 work. Before you continue this attitude, you need to look at the new version, which, as I said, has been extensively reworked in the UI area. It is NOT designed by children doing their first steps. All the icons were re-drawn, and look very nice. (despite functionality, but that´s NOT all a program needs to reach the masses). For example it starts with standard option to draw a grey rectangle around a new word-document. I hate this rectangle because of expecting a WYSIWYG-program. I just don´t get that silly grey rectangle on any normal piece of paper. This option has to be a additional - not a standard feature. Otherwise you turn a WYSIWYG-program into bullshit that has to be turned into WYSIWYG first... Nothing people really like. And, please, refrain from profanity on this public forum. BIG SNIP 8---8 Matt Needles OOo Volunteer tester/coach - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Professional Office...
Hi. Am Dienstag, 19. April 2005 04:55 schrieb Matt Needles: Volker Jung wrote: Hello! Why does noone give OpenOffice a professional look and feel? [...] Best regards Volker Jung Well, Volker, which version are you using? If you have not yet seen our beta of 2.0, you ought to try it. The main objective for this new release was to rework the user interface. Screenshots of 2.0 beta: http://www.openoffice.org/screenshots/ooo20/index.html Regards Rolf - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
