Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-design] Complete redesign of the interface!

2011-06-20 Thread Christopher Stark
Hi, I also agree with the criticism already stated here and add some of my own: - it looks too much like the M$ Office Ribbons - the window decoration should be part of the operating system / graphical environment. - Furthermore the main toolbar should always stay static and not be organized

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread Christopher Stark
1.) What do you think about LibreOffice as it stands today? The best and most compatible competitor of evil Microsoft Office. The program those will choose who do not get along with stupid ribbon-interfaces, those who don't want to steel or pay too much, those who detest the market leader and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-20 Thread Shawn Beasley
Hi, On Jun 19, 2011, at 0:35 , planas wrote: I agree about the users will need to customize the UI for their particular needs. This is one area where MS made a mistake with the Ribbon. It is not that easy to customize by the user. On problem I have noticed with many users is they will not

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi Scott, all - especially those having answered the survey already, let us try to move these surveys into a sustainable direction. This means that the results need to be available for all people and all times without too much effort. Also doing a survey via a mailing list, forces biased

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-20 Thread Phil Howard
I want to see LibreOffice having the *best* UI, not the newest or trendiest one. +1000 +1 If LibreOffice will be a trendsetter or not depends on the fact if we find *better* solutions than all the other designer out there (or if we manage to include them more consistently in our

[libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi all, I am a little unsatisfied with the amount of individual threads going into the direction of: We need a new interface for LibreOffice - and it needs to look linke this This is a Free Software Project. As a design team, we will not need to convince ourselves about this need to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, all, Thanks to all of you working on the survey topic! Scott, Javier: Do you think you could work with Björn's survey tool too? While he worked on this platform for quite a time now, it would be great if we could test it inside our team before we can point users, visitors and

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi Bernhard, all, Am Montag, 20. Juni 2011, 13:30:51 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: bit.ly/iEkWrB As the survey infrastructure is not finalized, I think Björn wanted to avoid search engines to crawl for the link. So please add http://www. in front of the link above... Actually no - it was

[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Magazine International is organizing with sign-up sheet

2011-06-20 Thread Marc Paré
With the help of the *Brazilian team*, an effort to organize an international version of LibreOffice Magazine has been created. If you are interested in participating, on a regular basis, to the production of the LibreOffice Magazine International (the international EN version) please feel

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, a short update: Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011, 20:56:45 schrieb Andreas Mantke: Hi all, in the last days I get a new environment for a extension and template repository for LibreOffice working. You can find the new site currently at

Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Scott Pledger
+1 on the gallery concept. I am more than willing to set it up and maintain it with the different UI reworks posted here and I think we can even come up with some templates to add it to the wiki's whiteboards. What do you think? I fully agree with the gallery idea, this is the best solution,

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Complete redesign of the interface!

2011-06-20 Thread Budislav Stepanov
I put a few things that do not exist or I changed the existing, such as for example a ruler who does not extend along the entire window,Becouse OF MSO 2010 I changed meni drastically, I think it means less clicking, just because the tools are grouped by category (most important for me). I do not

Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Sean White
I am also +1ing the gallery idea, but eill we host it on the wiki or on a different site?? On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Scott Pledger scottpledger2...@gmail.comwrote: +1 on the gallery concept. I am more than willing to set it up and maintain it with the different UI reworks posted here

Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread jlopez777
we can host it here www.libreofficedesign.weebly.com On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Sean White runicpala...@gmail.com wrote: I am also +1ing the gallery idea, but eill we host it on the wiki or on a different site?? we can host it here www.libreofficedesign.weebly.com On Mon, Jun 20,

[libreoffice-design] [VI] Advertising space in Linux User Developer ...

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Michael Meeks asked me to forward his mail to the design list. Anybody interested in creating a A4 advert for LibreOffice during the next week? Best regards Bernhard Original-Nachricht Hi guys, So - first, good news; Russell has offered us a free

Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joed, all jlopez777 schrieb: we can host it here www.libreofficedesign.weebly.com We should try to keep as many resources as possible in the LibreOffice/TDF infrastructure. Individual contributors can't assure future commitment and they should not feel forced to keep their resources

Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Astron
Hi back, We should try to keep as many resources as possible in the LibreOffice/TDF infrastructure. Yes, however, ADDITIONALLY it might be helpful to have a Flickr group that would be linked to from the Wiki, so everyone with at least a Yahoo account could post their ideas instantly. With our

[libreoffice-design] Something to Avoid (found in another package)

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Hi I ran into a very poor design in Crystal Reports today and I thought it should be mentioned as reminder in discussions about UI design. In CR you can export you document in several different formats and there are both a menu selection and toolbar button. The problem is that the button and

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke schrieb: Hi all, in the last days I get a new environment for a extension and template repository for LibreOffice working. You can find the new site currently at http://kermit.documentfoundation.org:9089/LibreOffice-Extensions-and-Templates/ There is only a

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] I just designed a quick version based on the conference logo by Nik: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Extensions_Templates_Logo.png And here is the source, if you want to play with it... Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Vamsi Kodali
@Astron - I was the who submitted the clippy-with-scraps logo. You can find it here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Extensions_v1.png I made it using LibO Draw. I will be happy to provide the source file to anyone who is interested in refining it, etc. When this topic was being

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Enabling Macros - misleading labelling

2011-06-20 Thread planas
Roxy, I thought the labeling strange the first time I heard of it. I would never have tried selecting the check box. A more accurate description should be used. I have submitted a bug report (38509) suggesting the label be changed. On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 17:29 -0500, Roxy Robinson wrote: And

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread planas
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 09:50 +0200, Christopher Stark wrote: 1.) What do you think about LibreOffice as it stands today? The best and most compatible competitor of evil Microsoft Office. The program those will choose who do not get along with stupid ribbon-interfaces, those who don't want

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Advertising space in Linux User Developer ...

2011-06-20 Thread Tobias Bernard
hi here's a quick proposal. what do you think? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Ad_A4.png http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Ad_A4.svg tobias bernard 2011/6/20 Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at Hi all, Michael Meeks asked me to forward his mail to the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Enabling Macros - misleading labelling

2011-06-20 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:10 -0400, planas wrote: Roxy, I thought the labeling strange the first time I heard of it. I would never have tried selecting the check box. A more accurate description should be used. I have submitted a bug report (38509) suggesting the label be changed. On