Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-07-04 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Saulo! Am Sonntag, den 03.07.2011, 20:51 -0300 schrieb Saulo Soares de Toledo: Hello! I'm new at list. A kind welcome to the Design Team :-) [... Color Handling Issues ...] Yep, you're right - one of the top-prio issues we should work on. We've already started to collect and cluster the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-07-04 Thread Rafael Rocha Daud
Em 04-07-2011 09:02, design+h...@global.libreoffice.org escreveu: Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video (

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-07-03 Thread Saulo Soares de Toledo
Hello! I'm new at list. I was hoping to talk some considerations about LibreOffice UI, and found this full thread here. I'm glad to see this discussion going. I want to congratulate you all for your excellent work with the LibreOffice, and will take this first e-mail to attach some comments to

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] 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

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-19 Thread RGB ES
2011/6/19 jlopez777 jlopez...@gmail.com: We come back to these great points but what is lacking is proper infrastructure and channels of operation. We speak of users with no data to back up with anything and most importantly, no brand identity. Nothing will come forth from this type of

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-19 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Scott, all thanks for bringing us back to the basics we need if we want to reach out to a general approach from individual ideas and great mockups. It's really superb to see the different UI rework proposals with lots of good ideas and proposals. But turning the multitude of them into one

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-19 Thread Scott Pledger
Bernhard, all, These are all wonderful points!! 2011/6/19 Bernhard Dippoldbernh...@familie-dippold.at: *The Goals:* - *Make LibreOffice easy to use while retaining its power.* I don't know if it is reasonable to have these two topics linked together so tigthly. Ease of use is of course

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-18 Thread RGB ES
2011/6/17 Scott Pledger scottpledger2...@gmail.com: Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform.  Someone recently posted this video (

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-18 Thread Scott Pledger
Thanks, Ricardo - you bring up an excellent point regarding the user. However, that is beyond the scope of these Tenets. My only goal for these is to provide a general direction for us when going through the researching, prototyping, and final development of any kind of UI overhaul for LO.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-18 Thread planas
Ricardo On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:46 +0200, RGB ES wrote: 2011/6/17 Scott Pledger scottpledger2...@gmail.com: Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office

[libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4 ) which really made me realize the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Scott On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video (

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Budislav Stepanov
I agree. You should look at the facts, which show that this program needs a completeredesign. In LibreOffice torn all icons, maybe 5 follow the same design, but others do not, if we compare ms office , we can see how intelligent layout of the interface, everything is close at hand and far easier.

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

[libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-08 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4 ) which really made me realize the