Re: [libreoffice-design] First Tabbed Interface Mockup

2012-03-21 Thread Sabin Densmore
I really like the examples on the link you included here, Mirek. I can see how useful those would be for users of office apps. Something similar has been implemented within the MS Office Suite for OSX (I use it at work) and it's a good idea. Also, good work to the Gnome team for including shots of

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

2012-03-15 Thread Sabin Densmore
fim 15.mar 2012 03:55, skrifaði King Duck: >> I think it's because the words for bold and italic change depending on the >> language. If you just use a character and show the effect, it tells the >> user what it does without having to refer to a specific word. >> &

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

2012-03-12 Thread Sabin Densmore
Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason we're not using "B" and "I" to indicate Bold and Italic? I don't care either way, but am curious as to why. For what it's worth, Thunderbird (what I'm using now) uses a capital letter "A". It's just hard to tell the difference between an italic "

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship...

2011-09-20 Thread Sabin Densmore
Agreed. On 9/20/2011 3:11 PM, Björn Balazs wrote: > Hi all, > > esp. as this suggestion is coming from you, Bernhard: > > 100% support to the outlined idea. If there is one person, that is > capable to lead UX it simply is Christoph. No more words needed on > that :) > > Go, Christoph, go! > >

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Sabin Densmore
I agree completely with your thoughts below, Scott. We should not only be striving for ease-of-use, but for pushing the boundaries of interaction models. If we can a) improve access to and understanding of the most commonly used features and b) do so in a way that is attractive and simple, we s

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hi there!

2011-06-10 Thread Sabin Densmore
11/2011 2:23 AM, Sabin Densmore wrote: Hello all. I'm not sure what the "hey I'm new here" protocol is, so I figured I would risk it and introduce myself. I've used OpenOffice since the early days, and am glad to see LibreOffice continue strongly forward. I figured that

[libreoffice-design] Hi there!

2011-06-10 Thread Sabin Densmore
Hello all. I'm not sure what the "hey I'm new here" protocol is, so I figured I would risk it and introduce myself. I've used OpenOffice since the early days, and am glad to see LibreOffice continue strongly forward. I figured that since I've gotten so much from the good work that maybe I should