Re: [libreoffice-design] Templates, styles, outline and bullets/numbering

2011-04-28 Thread Greg
> 2011/4/28 Greg : > > Hi, > > > > I believe Writer's template, style, outline and numbering facilities are > > in need of a rethink. The areas I think are weak, and this is by no > > means a full list, are: > > - The template organiser dialogue - who knows how to use it and what it's > > really f

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... Yours Truly, Scott Pledger On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 22:39, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:29 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > > Kohei, > > > > Good t

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:29 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > Kohei, > > Good to know! I haven't yet taken too close of a look at the code for LO, so > I don't know any of the particulars of the back-end as of yet, but that's > next on my to-do list! > > Quick question: Where can I find documentation

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 20:49 +0200, RGB ES wrote: > Indeed. Correct me if I'm wrong (my technical background in not deep > enough) but I think the problem is that OOo/LibO is using some archaic > (and arcane) set of libraries to draw its UI called VCL, that no one > else use. Yes. This is correc

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Page styles

2011-04-28 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:48:28 -0700, RGB ES wrote: A second iteration for the original proposal (sorry for the low quality image): https://sites.google.com/site/rgbmldcwriterideas/page-style-2.png Very interesting. I find hard to imagine what would happen if the document already has a rathe

[libreoffice-design] New Layout Concept - Update

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all, I have done a bit more work on the layout concept I described in some earlier emails. Let me know what you think!! The File and View menus are interactive when you view the presentation. http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Preview.odp Yours Truly, Scott Pledger -- Unsubs

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Page styles

2011-04-28 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/27 RGB ES : > 2011/4/27 Christoph Noack : >> Hi Ricardo, all! >> >> Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 16:33 +0200 schrieb RGB ES: >>> 2011/4/27 Rafael Rocha Daud : >>> > I think the advantage on Ricardo's idea is that you create a header/footer >>> > that comes to existence already filled with so

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
Kohei, Good to know! I haven't yet taken too close of a look at the code for LO, so I don't know any of the particulars of the back-end as of yet, but that's next on my to-do list! Quick question: Where can I find documentation on VCL?? I think that having a better understanding of what our rend

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/28 Kohei Yoshida : > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 10:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: >> One thing that we may wish to look into is using the same concept as the >> Chromium project does - pulling colors in from the user's native desktop >> environment, but not necessarily using those widgets.  This

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 10:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > One thing that we may wish to look into is using the same concept as the > Chromium project does - pulling colors in from the user's native desktop > environment, but not necessarily using those widgets. This will give > LibreOffice the abi

RE: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel Merker
+1 -Daniel Merker -Original Message- From: Scott Pledger [mailto:scottpledger2...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:49 PM To: design@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Sym

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
One thing that we may wish to look into is using the same concept as the Chromium project does - pulling colors in from the user's native desktop environment, but not necessarily using those widgets. This will give LibreOffice the ability to render its own layout and even graphics options, but it

Re: [libreoffice-design] Templates, styles, outline and bullets/numbering

2011-04-28 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/28 Greg : > Hi, > > I believe Writer's template, style, outline and numbering facilities are in > need of a rethink. The areas I think are weak, and this is by no means a full > list, are: > - The template organiser dialogue - who knows how to use it and what it's > really for? > - Style man

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Venezuela logo - a proposal

2011-04-28 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/28 Helio S. Ferreira : > Hi Daniel, all. > > I'm proposing an alternative to the Community Venezuela logo. > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1582639/logo_libre_venezuela_01.png > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1582639/logo_libre_venezuela_02.png > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1582639/logo_libre_venezuel