Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Stefan, I share your view ... but if we want to improve things, then teaching the user might help. There has been a thread on libo-ux-advise talking about Draw/Impress tools behavior ... I proposed to improve feedback via the status bar. anybody (Alex) who could have a look? Cheers, Christo

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 28.10.2011 00:51, schrieb alexander.wi...@zoho.com: > 2) Well, at least in Inkscape and Gimp "Ctrl" is the used key so it > might be considered a "standard" I am not saying Microsoft is the standard. But MS Word uses the shift key for that, as well as OpenOffce.org and LibreOffice. If dif

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
> > Well, I got already almost killed at the conf for my agreement to > minimize the borders :-) It's ongoing work by Cedric, who worked on the > Headers/Footers: > http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=818 > My specification is here. > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread alexander.wi...@zoho.com
Thanks for the feedback, Astron and Christoph, Nice to hear that some of this stuff is already being worked on or even implemented :) 1) I sent my suggestions to Dag Wieers and asked him to forward the mail to the ux-advice and/or help me 2) Well, at least in Inkscape and Gimp "Ctrl" is the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Alex, let me quickly comment them ... Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2011, 21:57 +0200 schrieb alexander.wi...@zoho.com: > Hi all, > > I've collected several ideas regarding the look of LO. Some of them are > inspired by word and I think it wouldn't be too hard to realize them. > There's a short

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread Astron
Hi Alexander, let's go through the list one by one... > 1) First of all, I think it's time to change the default formatting and > coloring of text, shapes and tables. It doesn't have to be extraordinary, > but some polish would be nice. Additionally would it be useful if the user > could define a

[libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look & feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread alexander.wi...@zoho.com
Hi all, I've collected several ideas regarding the look of LO. Some of them are inspired by word and I think it wouldn't be too hard to realize them. There's a short summary with a few examples in this document: http://ubuntuone.com/7m7AXgeh7OIwGBiCOHAjGh 1) First of all, I think it's time t