Hi Jean Baptiste,
As you can see [1] your issue 110826 is being addressed and the icon on
the start center will be changed.
The idea behind two identical icons was to reduce the amount of
different elements in the start center. As both icons have the function
of opening a folder they looked the same, but as you can see Stella took
ownership of the issue and this will be changed. Other improvements in
the start center can follow in future versions. I invite you and others
with ideas how to reduce deficiencies to take part of the branding
initiative where the points you raised can be addressed. We are just
starting, but we also aim to improve the collaboration with the UX team
to provide better usability.
Regards,
Rosana
[1] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110826
On 04/12/10 04:09 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Hi all,
As you perhaps know already, there is some effervescence in the
francophone NLC about the new version 3.2.1.
The problem is about the replacement of the splash-screen chosen by the
Community, the look and the usability of the new StartCenter, and the
method to do the changes.
There is two kinds of problem :
- *theses changes break our processes, mainly our QA process*. Indeed
OOo 3.2.1 is a bugfix and these changes do not fix any bug, so they have
nothing to do in a bugfix. Confidence in the quality assurance rests, to
a large extent, on the absolute respect of the procedures. The break of
our processes is then a major fail and a very bad message sent to the
Community.
- *the new StartCenter is mainly unusable* due to the too small
difference between ODF icons, the four small icons seem which seem
grayed, "open file" and "template" actions which have the same icon (a
closed folder !). Most of those to whom I showed the new StartCenter
have said that it is a regression. If we consider the StarCenter as the
gateway to OpenOffice.org, so it does not encourage the user to enter.
I do not like to write that but, in its current state, I do not know how
I could validate a francophone version of OOo 3.2.1. :-(
If we do not want to discourage the Community it is essential that the
main role of the Community shouldn't be only to accept and promote the
decisions taken by Hambourg. Remember, without its Community,
OpenOffice.org would not have a market share of ~20% in Europe.
So we should work *together* to do a better version 3.2.1.
Best regards.
JBF
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