[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Color schemes
Hi UX guys, I've been poking around the code that is responsible for the color schemes as found in Tools - Options... - Appearance - Color scheme There is some terrible duplication of functionality with vcl going on there, and I'd love to clean it up. On the way, I'd like to remove the possibility to name the schemes, and switch between them. My reasoning is that I doubt that a user is going to switch between themes just according to her/his mood ;-) - I bet that most of the users are happy with the default colors, and the rest will just tweak them once, and be done with that for the rest of their life. So - what is your view on that? OK for you to remove the Scheme combo box + [Save...] and [Delete] buttons? Or do you have another approach to this in mind? [This shouldn't affect the possibility to install an extension that will change the colors.] Thank you, Kendy ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Color schemes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kendy I tend to agree with you, becasue we offer just one theme as default. If we offer a set of themes, this feature will be appreciated by users (yes, I now, this is dumb, but users are users and they have mood). (I also had once a complain that Calc hiperlinks were blue on a grey backgorund, which had poor visual rendering. I had to go to Appearance to turn grey to white) Em 26-07-2012 05:33, Jan Holesovsky escreveu: My reasoning is that I doubt that a user is going to switch between themes just according to her/his mood ;-) - I bet that most of the users are happy with the default colors, and the rest will just tweak them once, and be done with that for the rest of their life. Regards - -- Olivier Hallot Founder, Board of Directors Member - The Document Foundation The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Fundação responsável civilmente, de acordo com o direito civil Detalhes Legais: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint LibreOffice translation leader for Brazilian Portuguese +55-21-8822-8812 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQERl1AAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxcFgH/iR3MTKuWn6VCcgDHslbMfPG dqbn90K1sV+lY+JMiMSmhyTqps9VmY89kUJlySNDziZC8fcOIoC0XPJGPGCD6NEX hNl3lGIsXYzGR1ZPnhKePD145uu0q/YARdDi8ljJjdWVo0pODdhU78resHo0Wei5 smCfYkpWrG6j+wtVgFDuHGTyOaTKswUyMQlNJmopyCz2xkegkeRPkVYUQFzSkpD8 3mM7osvuPv3vikro3UFsstq1Dd1lO3cuqCcFmgRNw3ondMuYZNNmajnte2AOZifI cKvgNnEqUxwpF61FQHPXoROTbC8ijnd1TnKCsWSAecfgtdMOe9dB1q33y3KfJvA= =0cym -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Color schemes
Jan Holesovsky wrote (26-07-12 10:33) My reasoning is that I doubt that a user is going to switch between themes just according to her/his mood ;-) [...] [This shouldn't affect the possibility to install an extension that will change the colors.] I have no idea about who uses it, but the latter possibility (extension) makes that I give my +1 -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org - www.librelex.org ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Color schemes
Hi Jan, Jan Holesovsky schrieb: Hi UX guys, I've been poking around the code that is responsible for the color schemes as found in Tools - Options... - Appearance - Color scheme There is some terrible duplication of functionality with vcl going on there, and I'd love to clean it up. On the way, I'd like to remove the possibility to name the schemes, and switch between them. My reasoning is that I doubt that a user is going to switch between themes just according to her/his mood ;-) - I bet that most of the users are happy with the default colors, and the rest will just tweak them once, and be done with that for the rest of their life. So - what is your view on that? OK for you to remove the Scheme combo box + [Save...] and [Delete] buttons? Or do you have another approach to this in mind? In can imagine these scenarios, where saving a scheme might be useful, but think they are unlikely: (1) A school does not use individual accounts and need a way to quickly change color settings for a visual disabled pupil. [I would advise the school to give an account or a portable version to that pupil.] (2) A user works on different places with the same account and monitors and environments are very different. (3) A user works with his personal settings but needs a quick change to the defaults when creating tutorials. Nevertheless I second the idea of removing the scheme option from the dialog. The shared macros contain a library Gimmicks. Perhaps it is possible to put saving current color settings and loading a stored version in a module there? That library has already a tool to change user settings. This problem shows again, that a division in a simple dialog for often needed settings and an advanced dialog for power users and administrators is needed. Kind regards Regina ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
