Re: [libreoffice-design] Calc Survey

2021-07-01 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Under (6) I use calc for process modelling, often with solving of linear equations. I am not sure if that is an appropriate entry. Steve On 30/06/2021 19:12, Heiko Tietze wrote: Hello all, we are planning to conduct a survey on Calc. The results should give insights of the main purpose t

Re: [libreoffice-design] Terminology modifications to Paste Special format

2018-04-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Can only offer an opinion from the other side of the world. I added some comments below but wonder if the text should hint at when to use or avoid a format. I.e. BMP = uncompressed, large files. I don't see PNG in LO 5.4.5. Paste Special menu. Either that or use the actual names so the use

Re: [libreoffice-design] Numbering & Bullets

2017-04-04 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. On 05/04/17 04:28, Heiko Tietze wrote: Hello all, we have many tickets regarding numbering & bullets and outlines. The problem has also a high relevance in the Nantes user interviews, not knowing the details though. Good time to think about a different solution: https://docs.google.com/do

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bundled english fonts

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Just chiming in here with a long time users perspective and the effect of changes to font packaging and substitution. Most of my work is multi-page manuals with many illustrations. We all know that substitute fonts are not exact, and when a font is substituted it screws up the layout throug

Re: [libreoffice-design] Sidebar Survey

2016-02-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2016-02-26 11:33, Heiko Tietze wrote: On Freitag, 26. Februar 2016 11:06:21 CET Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2016-02-26 10:41, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote: There isnt a duplication if you choose not to use the sidebar... Agree with the easy switching. I work mostly ... Before

Re: [libreoffice-design] Sidebar Survey

2016-02-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. On 2016-02-26 10:41, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote: Hi Pedro, On 02/25/2016 04:34 PM, Pedro Rosmaninho wrote: Anyway, I would just like to make a proposal for changing one aspect of the behaviour of the Sidebar and toolbar. Right now on LO 5.1 when a certain object like charts or pictures or

Re: [libreoffice-design] New default fonts

2016-02-20 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2016-02-20 14:03, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 02/19/2016 01:21 PM, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Hi Francisco, Francisco Adrián Sánchez píše v Ne 14. 02. 2016 v 14:19 -0300: Please, reconsider the use of Carlito as a *default* font. It has serious design issues which came with the "

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey about Libreoffice Draw

2016-02-02 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. Very good Heiko. At the end after the last click (Next tab on page 3) the survey goes to http://www.user-weave.net/start.html. I don't know how much control you have but https://www.libreoffice.org/ would be better. Is the question "What do you expect from Libreoffice Draw in the future?"

Re: [libreoffice-design] "eat our own dog food"

2015-12-03 Thread Steve Edmonds
I use LO every day. Day in day out. 4-6 hours a day. I think the devs. have done a great job, I have hopped on their bus and the ride gets me just about everywhere I want to go. Of course there are always improvements, and I work a little differently from the average user so have to adjust as I

Re: [libreoffice-design] The style drop down menu in properties tab (sidebar) is redundant and unnecessary

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2015-11-11 13:46, Bastián Díaz wrote: El 10-11-2015 20:06, Joel Madero escribió: As long as you don't remove it from the tool bar. The drop down holds the style used in re-styling a document >>and it is very quick to access during document processing, 2 clicks. In my use case I can't fit

Re: [libreoffice-design] The style drop down menu in properties tab (sidebar) is redundant and unnecessary

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2015-11-11 09:27, Bastián Díaz wrote: El 10-11-2015 16:25, Joel Madero escribió: Hi All,l So either we improve current style dropdown in panel Properties considerably, maybe ending up removing S&F panel, or the other way round.. In any case: the better and more visible the use of style

Re: [libreoffice-design] The style drop down menu in properties tab (sidebar) is redundant and unnecessary

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2015-11-11 04:40, Pedro Rosmaninho wrote: I do not say otherwise. it is convenient to operate in a toolbar, not in the sidebar, so I proposed a toolbar like google-docs. ​To you. Other people find it more convenient to operate in the Sidebar. I give strong preference to the Sidebar bec

Re: [libreoffice-design] Paragraph and character styles in Writer's Styles menu

2015-09-15 Thread Steve Edmonds
I agree. I am copying parts of one manual in a .doc with all sorts of strange fonts and styles into my new .odt manual. If I reset the style of the .doc text to Text Body before copying I am fine. If I reset it to Default I have strife. Don't ask me why, may be it upsets my Default style that is

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: A more usable default setup

2013-09-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-09-13 11:30, Daniel Hulse wrote: Now, something that would be good for people used to the old setup and for people with less screen real estate would be to to put a toggle switch in the standard toolbar to switch between having the sidebar and standard toolbar displayed. I like that id

Re: [libreoffice-design] A more usable default setup

2013-09-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-09-10 18:12, Daniel Hulse wrote: Hi, I posted my current Libreoffice setup to Google+ and people seemed to like it, so I decided to talk about it some here. I am finding the sidebar to be very usable, and so I thought it would be a good idea to see what implementing it would have on the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving styles UI based on cases studies

2013-06-05 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 6/06/13 2:27 AM, mfrai...@free.fr wrote: Hi folks, I'm very involved with writing processors, and I'm trying to teach my pupils to work with styles, which should be one's first intention after all. So I designed the documents they're going to work on since they are too young to do it. Then

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-04-17 04:08, Pedro wrote: FYI Meanwhile at the Apache development site... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2347109/AOO4_rev_1468069.png (screenshot by me, under Win XP SP3, using Industrial theme and after un-selecting the usual top toolbars, which duplicate most of the buttons sho

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Official v.4.0.x pamphlet template (Not the Community version)

2013-04-06 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-04-07 09:39, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Issa Le 06/04/13 11:02 AM, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 05/04/13 04:27 AM, Issa Alkurtass a écrit : > Marc Paré wrote on April 03, 2013 7:01 PM: >> >You updated the pamphlet file on this page: >> > >> >https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Brochure-lo

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: New gallery art

2012-08-08 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-08-09 13:31, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Steve et al, Le 2012-08-08 17:52, Steve Edmonds a écrit : Hi. one place this may have significance is the educational sector. School kids are always using clip art from the gallery and lack of clip art availability would be a decision point in our

Re: [libreoffice-design] New gallery art

2012-08-08 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-08-09 06:22, Mirek M. wrote: Hi Alex, On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alexander Wilms wrote: Hi Klaus-Jürgen, I agree that we should get rid of the galleries we have right now. But I imagine that stuff people might use are the bullet points and maybe rulers. We already have dialogs d

Re: [libreoffice-design] Idea: “Save/Save as dialog box check box option “Always create backup copy”

2012-07-08 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-07-08 19:26, Tor Lillqvist wrote: if the original file is untitled.xxx, backup copy can be save in untitled.xxx.odx where xxx is the standard extension name for different open document file format. (odf,odp,odt,odg,odb,ods) example backup filename, Untitled 1.odt.odx But especially if

Re: [libreoffice-design] proposal for writer's Insert menu

2012-05-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-05-29 19:59, Michel RENON wrote: Hi, As I proposed during my last chat participation, here is another easy design hack : a modification of Writer's Insert menu. I find today's insert menu not very usefull : most used commands are everywhere, beside unused commands. Here is my propo

Re: [libreoffice-design] Proportional cropping of images

2012-04-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
A little chain between the 2, like Gimp. steve On 2012-04-12 17:47, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi, dunno if this is UX or Design only, so I post to both ;) When we want to redimension/crop an image (eg in Writer), we can alternatively use: -- the mouse we just drag the image handles t

Re: [libreoffice-design] random question about Internet printing.

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-03-07 12:21, Andrew Pullins wrote: I just took a quiz for my OS class and one of the questions was to define and describe different ways to connect to printers for some reason. when I got to the new ability to print things over the Internet any where in the world. I started thinking abo

Re: [libreoffice-design] Uncluttering the LibreOffice Writer menus

2011-10-15 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 16/10/11 06:20, satchitb wrote: > 4. Send should renamed as Email, as all options seem to be regarding email. > Consider scrapping this, because most users use attachments in their browser > or mail client. > Send as is probably the major feature for us that makes LO stand out. In a busines

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VOTE CLOSED] Christoph Noack is Design Team Lead!

2011-09-27 Thread Steve Edmonds
Congratulations Christoph steve On 2011-09-28 11:18, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi all, > > I think we can close this voting: > > Congratulations Christoph! > > The Design Team wants you to be their Lead! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://

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

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi Planas. On 22/06/11 10:05 AM, planas wrote: Hi all, On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 23:09 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi Björn, all Björn Balazs schrieb: 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

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

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi All. On 22/06/11 9:09 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi Björn, all Björn Balazs schrieb: 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...". For me they show t

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

2011-05-29 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 27/05/11 11:18 AM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: Hi, Steve! On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:25:09 -0700, Steve Edmonds wrote: The documentation at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/6/6e/0103GS3-StylesAndTemplates.pdf doesn't explain how they work and possibly if I can gain a b

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

2011-05-22 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 30/04/11 4:18 AM, RGB ES wrote: 2011/4/29 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

Re: [libreoffice-design] 'adopt-o-meter' for the download page

2011-05-18 Thread Steve Edmonds
ty by bringing this functionality to the user when they > need it. > > Cheers > > Phil Jackson > > > On 5/19/2011 11:25 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >> On 2011-05-19 11:02, Phil Jackson wrote: >>> Hi Bernhard >>> >>> It's good to see si

Re: [libreoffice-design] 'adopt-o-meter' for the download page

2011-05-18 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-05-19 11:02, Phil Jackson wrote: > Hi Bernhard > > It's good to see similar ideas in operation/development with OOo4kids. > > Being a programmer myself, I know it shouldn't be too difficult to > build menus and tool bars that have an additional User-Ranking tag. > When Toolbars and menus

Re: [libreoffice-design] First Post - members particularly interested in Usability

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
. This particular thing doesn't happen often - in fact it is more likely to come up when my boys are doing school assignments. But any simpler intuitive approach would be appreciatively received. Cheers Phil Jackson On 5/16/2011 4:57 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi Phil. I haven'

Re: [libreoffice-design] First Post - members particularly interested in Usability

2011-05-15 Thread Steve Edmonds
so. This could be an alternative > method for users who know precisely what they want to achieve. > > Cheers > > Phil Jackson > > > On 5/16/2011 11:14 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >> On 2011-05-16 10:07, Phil Jackson wrote: >>>>> 10) Pasting Picture

Re: [libreoffice-design] First Post - members particularly interested in Usability

2011-05-15 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-05-16 10:07, Phil Jackson wrote: >> >>> 10) Pasting Pictures so that they don't jump around unexpectedly >>> when you >>> have many pictures on a page and you move one. >> This is one major bother for me, too. This might be pretty hard to >> solve..? >> >> > > I've got some ideas on this

Re: [libreoffice-design] Usability comes from stability

2011-05-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 10/05/11 11:17 PM, Christopher Stark wrote: Hi, I totally agree with most of what you say.. concerning this one problem you have with pasting formated web-texts I think there is a better solution already implemented in LibreOffice. "On 5/10/2011 5:16 AM, Jim Fuqua wrote: As a lawye

Re: [libreoffice-design] Mouse click actions on Styles and Format window

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-04-27 09:34, Andy Brown wrote: > Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >> >> On 27/04/11 8:25 AM, Christoph Noack wrote: >>> Still the point is - why do people need to add more styles? I think the >>> number of styles is quite sufficient, but maybe the d

Re: [libreoffice-design] Mouse click actions on Styles and Format window

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 27/04/11 8:25 AM, Christoph Noack wrote: Still the point is - why do people need to add more styles? I think the number of styles is quite sufficient, but maybe the defaults are unwanted ... don't know. Since discovering styles I use them all the time. I have styles for various manuals and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Page styles

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-04-26 16:28, Rafael Rocha Daud wrote: > Em -10-01--28163 16:59, RGB ES escreveu: >> There is one thing that it is strange about page styles when you edit >> them, specially for new users: it is possible to decide if a >> particular page style have or not headers or footers... but you cann

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Questions about "style" name

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 25 April 2011 23:15, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-04-25 06:58, Michel RENON a écrit : > > Hi, >> >> Few days ago, there was a discussion about the "style" name : >> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/msg01436.html >> >> As I've been teaching the basic of OpenOffice 2 or 3 years ago,

Re: [libreoffice-design] About the Navigator

2011-04-11 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi Greg. I think what you describe is what is needed to drive LO from the enthusiasts arena to main stream adoption. But as the enthusiasts are doing all the work, it requires good management or they will no longer be enthusiastic. steve On 12/04/11 08:48, Greg wrote: > Without wishing to rain on

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Team Kick-Off Step 4: Organizing our Work (... causing some work for you *g*)

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. This is excellent work. This adds to the feeling well governed product development and provides a user with confidence and they can really see where things are going. The inclusion of bug processing is good as I had wondered how bugs were prioritised and moved through design to resolution. Che