Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Template Manager default thumbnails

2013-01-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Cedric, On 29 January 2013 11:15, Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdon...@suse.com wrote: Hi all, I was looking for the pictures to show when I have no template thumbnail. Do you have a link to the ones you were mentioning in our last chat? Were you mentioning the icons like this one?

Re: including Ubuntu fonts in Windows/OSX installers

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Björn, Tor, On 24 January 2013 10:27, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: with LibreOffice on Windows and OSX? That would make them available for use in default templates etc. Personally, I'd love to see it in LibreOffice, especially because it is one of the very few opensource fonts that

Re: including Ubuntu fonts in Windows/OSX installers

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Tor, On 24 January 2013 10:27, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: If the Ubuntu typeface is so unique as they say (i.e. instantly recognisable) (or even worse, subconsciously recognised), wouldn't using it in templates then be an endorsement of Ubuntu? Isn't LibreOffice supposed to be

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michel, Kendy, * sorry this comes so late... * tldr: The background image UI should really go if it won't work. On 18 January 2013 10:03, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote: May i make some suggestions on the pref panel ? - why not keep the own image to select an image in local hd ? Hm

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] including Ubuntu fonts in Windows/OSX installers

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Tor, On 24 January 2013 10:27, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: If the Ubuntu typeface is so unique as they say (i.e. instantly recognisable) (or even worse, subconsciously recognised), wouldn't using it in templates then be an endorsement of Ubuntu? Isn't LibreOffice supposed to be

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Fwd: Word completion default value

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Sent to Samuel only. -- Forwarded message -- From: Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@gmail.com Date: 24 January 2013 16:40 Subject: Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Word completion default value To: Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@gmail.com Hi Samuel, while in general, I like

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michel, Kendy, * sorry this comes so late... * tldr: The background image UI should really go if it won't work. On 18 January 2013 10:03, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote: May i make some suggestions on the pref panel ? - why not keep the own image to select an image in local hd ? Hm

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Fitoschido, On 24 January 2013 17:50, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos fitosch...@gmail.com wrote: No, I don’t agree on removing the feature from 4.0. We should improve its rough edges instead of going the easy way. You realise the 4.0.0 RC3 aka the 4.0.0 final release is going to be tagged

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Adolfo, But still, it’s too late to remove things. Too much hype this feature has created on blogs already... And people is still yelling that “we do not care about UI” or something like that... Note that I only spoke about the user-defined background images feature. Not about the Personas

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Presentation Backgrounds broken with new SVG filter

2013-01-15 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michael, Regina, On 14 January 2013 12:17, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: I'll get to fixing this for 4.0 - so I wouldn't worry :-) Sound good. Thanks for the information willingness to patch! Astron. ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Presentation Backgrounds broken with new SVG filter

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again... In the interest of accuracy, I was overstating things, re: There is an especially visible regression which is that radial gradients do not work at all any more. There are more templates that use radial gradients, but not all are broken. (No idea what this brokenness depends upon)

Re: [PUSHED 4.0] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, so, some of you know, I have soem reservations about this feature... be that as it may, I have a small number of comments still: * there are some spelling/grammar errors: ** the button for selecting the background image has the word Backround on it ** the window for Select a persona has

Re: [PUSHED 4.0] LATE FEATURE: Personas in LibreOffice

2013-01-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, minor correction to my own post only LibO window with my (admittedly somewhat slow (1000 Mb/s)) connection Make that 1 MBit/s... Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: LibreOffice ...... Libraries VCL

2012-12-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mariano, I wanted to see if I could make mock ups and functions, with VCL. To make mockups, there is now _partial_ support for Glade's .ui files. See here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout As a non-developer, I can't really tell you how to hook it up to code,

Re: Personas in LibreOffice

2012-12-14 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, On 14 December 2012 17:21, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote: So far this is still not finished, and I am fighting to have some time to finish that for Beta 2, and for late feature approval ;-) - so it still may happen that I'll need to just disable that code in 4.0, even though

Re:

2012-12-14 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Rushi, On 14 December 2012 12:29, Rushi Shukla rushbo...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I'm not clear about how to find the checkout of the libreoffice version I am trying to build . Since you cloned into a folder called libo, you should try looking for that, I guess. Does that help? Astron.

Re: Extension Manager: Link to further Extensions

2012-11-21 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Andreas, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: the link for further extensions in extension manager of LibreOffice points currently to http://extensions.libreoffice.org. This page contains some explanation about the use of the extension-site but no

Re: [PATCH] Higher‐resolution OpenDocument icons for Mac OS X

2012-09-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Caolan, So, re the contents of the icons.tar file, they look fine to me. I'm minded to add them in unless someone has some argument against that ? +1 from me, they look good. (You could always add more detail, but that's not necessary right now.) Astron.

Re: Higher‐resolution OpenDocument icons for Mac OS X

2012-08-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Nicholas, I am taking the liberty to add the design list into CC here... Astron. On 27 August 2012 16:58, Nicholas Shanks nicksha...@nickshanks.com wrote: Since I am unable to compile LO, I figured I would work on the artwork a bit. I noticed that the Windows .ico files included a 256px

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Repo / place for original artwork files (was: Re: [PUSHED] Make new About dialogue a little nicer)

2012-08-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Kendy, Terribly sorry for missing your mail :-( Can you please describe me the problem more exactly? I can see the images, when I go eg. to http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/icon-themes/tango/lc10713.png and click (plain) after the blob:

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Relicensing of your contributions to the Gnome theme for LibreOffice

2012-08-08 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Jakub, glad you wrote back. :) On 6 August 2012 14:31, Jakub Steiner jim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefan, sorry I've let a response slip through. Wouldn't the fact that gnome-icon-theme is LGPL3 be enough to allow incorporating the bits you need into the libre office tree? So, regarding

Re: MacOS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

2012-07-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi there, as an aside: how does LibreOffice fare on the new MBP's high-DPI display? Does anyone know? Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

[Review-3-6] Branding Splash screen fix

2012-07-17 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello there, It'd be great if someone could cherry-pick the following two commits into 3.6: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=151400ef49a2a351c236753e7e72781412659126 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8b8e611e9e17d55c49209f02f70c4a0acd2e0448 (The

[Review-3-6] Fix for typo in template name

2012-07-17 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi there, a very simple fix: when I added the title information (File - Properties) to the Vintage masterpage, I accidentally typed VIntage, this is now corrected. (Although the name is apparently localised in the template manager, so maybe this is almost inconsequential, as most people don't

Window background (was: Re: [ANN] LibreOffice 3.6.0.0 beta2 available for testing)

2012-06-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi ape, Kendy, (Mirek,) CC'ing Mirek, since he proposed the look...   His eyes involuntarily seek the boundaries between objects: a page, the working area or a ruler.   If the objects are:   a) a very bright or dark;   b) have almost the same color and have no boundary lines;   c) have too

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Enable CTL for Default?

2012-06-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, I enabled CTL/Asian support some time ago and it doesn't bother me performance-wise. However, the separate font entries in the Paragraph Style dialogue do bother me quite a bit. I also don't really see the use for them because (at least in the case of the CTL default) they lump very

Re: [PUSHED] Re: [REVIEW-3-6 LATE FEATURE] color scales and data bars in calc

2012-06-15 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, - the menu to open the dialog is currently the only submenu of Format -  Conditional Formatting; looks to me as Conditional Formatting...  should be flattened for 3.6 (and given to submenu in 3.7 again) - but  that is probably Astron's call.  Astron? Markus said, he is still going

Re: [LATE FEATURE] Windows UI improvements

2012-06-14 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, I won't try to judge the code, but I approve the visuals. :) (Some further modifciation might still be useful to get rid of the white triangles at the left and the right.) Overall I like it very much though, thanks, Kendy. Astron. ___ LibreOffice

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Question Concerning Bug 51048 - VIEWING: Outline around text on focused buttons

2012-06-14 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Since I have some trouble to add anything to Bugzilla right now... Hi Tomasz, Rainer, the dotted outline was used in the default theme of older versions of Windows (I think even the XP default theme used it, but can't say now). In Vista/7, it was replaced by the blue glow on the icons. We now

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Make new About dialogue a little nicer

2012-06-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Jean-Baptiste, Riccardo On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 12:06 +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote: It looks way cleaner, also what do you think about to align all the text above buttons to left instead of center ? Hm, don't think that would look very good, to be honest. If the dialogue were as slim

Re: [Patch] Make new About dialogue a little nicer

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
. On 4 June 2012 16:32, Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Since I noticed, the beta is supposed to be tagged today or tomorrow already and we in the Design team had talked about our new About thing a little... and I also don't seem to have anything to do... I made

Re: Dialog About LibreOffice contents

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Yoandy, I just posted a patch on this list. Unless there are any obvious problems with it, I think I am not going to work any more this... Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Relicensing of your contributions to the Gnome theme for LibreOffice

2012-06-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Andreas, Hylke, Jakub, Lapo! We from LibreOffice are very much interested in getting some of your contributions to the Gnome icon theme into LibreOffice. This will help us to refresh our somewhat ageing Tango theme. However, we use a different license for our contributions than Gnome does.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Disabling file opening and saving in print preview mode

2012-06-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello again, so, one thing is always sure, when Regina writes here: lots of the misunderstandings I have about the inner workings of the product are resolved. Thanks! But still... As Regina has already pointed out: *page* preview print preview. Page preview doesn't imply printing. Eg;

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re: Remove option to hide the scrollbars

2012-06-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, Can you please create a screenshot [with a look here arrow / point / line / circle / ...] for me to see what exactly do you mean?  I am sure it is fixable, whatever it is :-) Not a problem, see the attached file (it's magnified, so you won't be able to measure exactly 23/19px

File type icons in icon-themes/[theme]/sfx2/res/

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, in the path icon-themes/[theme]/sfx2/res/, there are a lot of interesting file type icons, like old StarOffice document icons, actual Word and Excel 97/2000 document icons etc. Since the icons we need for the file picker all appear to be stored in icon-themes/[theme]/res (without sfx2 in

Re: [PATCH] Re: 1 sheet by default [was Re: Tinderbox failure, Linux-RHEL6-x86_64@14-with-check, MASTER, last success: 2012-05-15 18:12:02]

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Kendy, Stephan, thanks for your help and pushing this (and the original patch). The approach looks rather sane to me (and apparently to Kendy also, who already pushed).  In general, the qadevOOo based tests are rather a mess, and nobody loves them.  However, they proved useful in

Re: Disabling file opening and saving in print preview mode

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
→ reply to list, too Hi Kohei, I noticed that we actually allow saving and loading of document in print preview mode. But to me that feels very odd. What sticks out as most odd to me is that our print preview is so incredibly cluttered (menu bar + 2 toolbars), whereas e.g. in Firefox it is

Re: File type icons in icon-themes/[theme]/sfx2/res/

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, thanks for the helpful comments. So, checking with zip files seems a good way to go about this... @Eike: It seems the builtin file picker only shows 16x16 icons (unless there is some incredibly well hidden option to switch to something other than list view), so it at least can't be the

[PATCH] Re: 1 sheet by default [was Re: Tinderbox failure, Linux-RHEL6-x86_64@14-with-check, MASTER, last success: 2012-05-15 18:12:02]

2012-05-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Kendy, Stephan, first: Stephan, I'm very sorry for breaking your tinderbox(es) for days and not noticing it. (I just assumed my 2-byte change of a commit was innocent enough. I'll do make check in the future as you advised.) With some dumbluck and [1], I've managed to get it down to 1

Re: fdo#45830 - Language/User Interface: current choice indicated as default

2012-05-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Rob, But can I solve this or should this be asked to the usability-mailinglist? And what is the emailaddress of that mailinglist? The Address is libreoffice-ux-advise at freedektop org. I've CC'd that list. I have created a patch that corrects the name of the default locale to the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] fdo#45830 - Language/User Interface: current choice indicated as default

2012-05-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Rob, But can I solve this or should this be asked to the usability-mailinglist? And what is the emailaddress of that mailinglist? The Address is libreoffice-ux-advise at freedektop org. I've CC'd that list. I have created a patch that corrects the name of the default locale to the

Re: [PATCH] Don't make tab headers bold by default

2012-05-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Norbert, thanks... here's an updated version. Astron. 0001-Use-normal-font-in-tab-headers.patch Description: Binary data ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mirek's visit in SUSE :-)

2012-05-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, Here, I would like to propose two things: * make Insert mode harder to trigger, for instance, by having to use Shift+Ins (instead of just Ins) * remove the inidactor wholesale That is actually an interesting idea :-)  The cursor changes to a block one when the overwrite mode is

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] A sheet by default

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, this trivial patch sets the default number of sheets in a new Calc file down to one (as discussed on ux-advise). I am kind of unsure if the modification in defaultsoptions.cxx is necessary since it does not seem to do anything on its own... Otherwise it works... Shall I push? Astron.

[PATCH] Don't make tab headers bold by default

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi there, I've always wondered why LibreOffice (and before it Ooo) would make the selected tab header bold, because no OS I know does that natively. While there is an option with which backends could turn this behaviour off, if there's no need for that we probably should remove it, I guess.

Re: [PATCH] Don't make tab headers bold by default

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, thanks for the hint ... forgot the attachment. Astron. 0001-Use-normal-font-in-tab-headers.patch Description: Binary data ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [UX advise] Key navigation in ValueSet controls

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Matteo, it's been some time, I know – but I had this among my drafts... I hope you'll forgive.    I just pushed my rework of ValueSet key navigation to master. Main differences from the old one are: * No more vertical wrap-around * Last item can be easily displayed also when on a shorter

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PATCH] Don't make tab headers bold by default

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi there, I've always wondered why LibreOffice (and before it Ooo) would make the selected tab header bold, because no OS I know does that natively. While there is an option with which backends could turn this behaviour off, if there's no need for that we probably should remove it, I guess.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PATCH] Don't make tab headers bold by default

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, thanks for the hint ... forgot the attachment. Astron. 0001-Use-normal-font-in-tab-headers.patch Description: Binary data ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re: Remove option to hide the scrollbars

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, can you have a look at why it seems slightly off-centre? Maybe the ruler widgets are wider than the rulers themselves seem. Thus, the right side gets the margin you set and the left side gets set margin + dead part of the ruler. Is that fixable somehow? Astron.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-05-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello all, I've updated the proposal with data bars/color scales in mind... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Conditional_Formatting I've tried to describe it in the wiki... if there are questions, don't hesitate to ask. Astron.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mirek's visit in SUSE :-)

2012-05-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, Mirek, great idea and a great list of things you've done! The commits that introduced that are the following: Lighter border window (no 3d effect): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=51fdf273e9893d3d05c99a09e1c2e5835a78e891 Zoom slider:

Re: How to add color scales to ODF?

2012-05-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Only sent this to Kohei... sending to list, too, now. On 12 May 2012 12:09, Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, On 11 May 2012 17:50, Kohei Yoshida kohei.yosh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Michael Stahl mst...@redhat.com wrote: i wonder

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Markus, Old planning has been moved a bit. Color scales and maybe data bars will make it into 3.6. Is there a good way to integrate it into the conditional formatting dialog? I am working on it. Meanwhile, there's an implementation detail that I would find useful to know: how are data

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Visual representation of calc borders slightly changed

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, at the Hackfest (almost a month ago now, shame on me), I noticed how the corners of the cells were slightly round... although they should be square. This isn't a new effect, it's just that Markus's work highlights it more. Markus suggested that you (Thorsten) might be good person to speak

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Find Next/Find Previous context -- shortcut keys show or not?

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Korrawit, Talking about FindBar, shall this be discussed together?:  when the cursor is in the FindBar, the FindBar trash almost all keyboard shoutcuts. I think that makes sense. It's sort of a mode... This means you can't use the keyboard shortcuts, except, for example, Ctrl+A (Select

Re: [PUSHED v2] fdo#42779: Implement icon theme lookaside directory

2012-05-01 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Gabor, Michael, On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 04:56 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: This enables overriding icons found in an images.zip file with ones in a directory named images next to the zip file. Sounds great! Thank you.        Looks lovely, as/when there are dev-builds we should poke the

Re: Regarding your commit: Add all the available themes to the list

2012-04-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Korrawit, all, Or could anyone, including you :-), tell us more detailed story about supporting themes? AFAIK, the Classic and Industrial themes were deliberately removed from the theme list. There's a number of commits regarding Industrial:

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Markus, As already discussed in Hamburg I'm happy with the current proposal but I have one point that I only noticed today. Would it be possible to add a concept for data bars and color scales? Possible, certainly. I think, in the combo box Cell value is we'd need a third choice like

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [libreoffice-design] Re: conditional format dialog

2012-04-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Andrew, what are these data bars and color scales you speak of? could you like to the concept for them if you have one? take a look here: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/microsoft-excel-2010-data-bar/ and here:

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] fdo#48870: Remove cookie handling code.

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Gabor, Michael,        No doubt Astron will be glad to see that cookie image die ;-) No doubt, I am. Thank you, Gabor!        On the 'cleanup themes to help artists' front, bug:        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48873        could use being split into smaller pieces,

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Pierre, 1. For the record: the ability to create a new style is one of the items of the list of styles. Yes, that's the intention. 2. I understand that we will defer the option of sorting conditions. However I disagree with the proposition the Add button Appended to the last

[PATCH] Fix icons for flipping

2012-04-14 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, here's a trivial patch to exchange the flipping icons for images in the Human/Oxygen themes – now they should be correct. Astron. 0001-Correct-icons-for-flipping-images-in-Oxygen-Human-th.patch Description: Binary data ___ LibreOffice

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] mouse centered scrolling

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Tim, Do you want me to replace this by a sub menu or add the new despite the original one? Right, so, currently we have the menu entry Zoom..., which opens a dialogue (and that is the main problem, because that means at least three clicks and moving your mouse a lot). See the mockup

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] New icons in Tango

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, about a week ago, Michael (M.) noticed on ux-advise that some icons in LibreOffice's Tango theme had been replaced. Well, I replaced those and didn't do the sensible thing and discuss these changes first... I'd like to make up for that lack of discussion. Thus, I've created a wiki page

Re: Font rendering oddities: is this already known?

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Olivier, all, I believe what you see are the effects of pair kerning. (Kerning means to move glyphs closer together/wider apart to make them _seem_ equally far apart as every other letter in that line. The traditional example is VA, which without kerning would look more like V A.) I any case,

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] tango icons in master ? ...

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michael, Did we have a new formula icon in master ? I could have sworn tango had a nicer, simpler icon (or did something change) ? It's new (well, it's been there for at least two months). And it's my work. If you don't like it, sorry. The old icon was a black Industrial icon that I

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] tango icons in master ? ...

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, sorry for two mails on this topic... Anyway, the old icon were those two: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/icon-themes/industrial/sw/imglst/lc20556.png http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/icon-themes/industrial/sw/imglst/sc20556.png Astron.

Re: [PUSHED] [PATCH]fdo45671 set initial colours for split buttons

2012-03-21 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Winfried, I just pushed this, with a small change, namely, I made the line color blue by default (same as in MS Office, again). Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Libreoffice dev-install fail

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Jesso, On 20 March 2012 06:55, Jesso Murugan developer.je...@gmail.com wrote: Libreoffice built successfully but failed on make dev-install as the following files were missing. I made a git pull this morning. If you do ./g pull, your dictionaries repo should get updated, too. That might

Re: [UX advise] Key navigation in ValueSet controls

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Matteo, Would you mind confirming them (yes/no will suffice)? Yes. I believe that's all as we discussed. I hope all of this makes sense, if not, we'll see later on. :) Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [PATCH]fdo45671 set initial colours for split buttons

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Winfried, Is this the initial setting you wanted? AFAICS it hasn't been pushed yet, nor rejected :) Sorry for the lack of feedback. Yes, those should be the right colours. If I there's no one to complain, I'll just push this later today as it seems reasonably simple. Astron.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-03-13 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Markus, I don't see that much use in the Conditional Format Manager. Excel uses a totally different concept and treats each conditional format entry as one entry in the manager while we would a set of conditional formats treat as one entry. Maybe I'm ignorant of something else here. Is

Re: [UX advise] Key navigation in ValueSet controls

2012-03-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Matteo, Well, in this case my goal is to let the user see the content of not-full rows without explicitly looking for it, and to move rapidly from an item to another without too much corrections. I see. Good catch. Also speaking from a Western perspective, I find it somewhat confusing

[PUSHED] Re: [PATCH] Translate German comments in core/cppuhelper

2012-03-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, thanks for this. Pushed. Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [PUSHED][PATCH]fdo45671 writer par. bg color simplified code for split button

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Winfried, Michael, Ivan, all, I did some thinking (some, not a lot) on this matter. It seems that the default colour for font and line colour buttons is black and for background buttons (highlight excepted) is transparent. That does not look usefull to me, is these are bound to be the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestions

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Bhaavan, I am adding the dev list (libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org) here... Astron. On 9 March 2012 12:27, Bhaavan Merchant bhaavanmerch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am Bhaavan Merchant, and am a 3rd year undergrad student. I have been a part of this mailing list for sometime and

Re: [PUSHED][PATCH]fdo45671 writer par. bg color simplified code for split button

2012-03-08 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Winfried, On 7 March 2012 07:54, Winfried Donkers w.donk...@dci-electronics.nl wrote: Astron wrote (06-03-2012 17:44) That is expected behaviour to me. The startup background colur is transparent (hence the gray bitmap in the button). To the uninitiated, this behaviour might seem very

[Patch] Fix for fdo#38207 and another idea of mine

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
?) Regards, Astron. From ef47ccad183584d0d2da4d84dfed8d5af8bcaa0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Knorr (astron) heinzless...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:02:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix fdo#38207 and also hide another option in Writer/Web --- sw/source/ui/config/optpage.cxx | 16

Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] [PUSHED] Automatically select an option page if a user clicks on a category

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Cor, What specifically doesn't work for you? For me it's about okay ~today. (I remember August promised you a better solution for later, though.) Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [PUSHED][PATCH]fdo45671 writer par. bg color simplified code for split button

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Winfried, Ivan, 1. Open a new Writer doc 2. Type smth 3. Press the Background Color button    -  nothing happens (?) That is expected behaviour to me. The startup background colur is transparent (hence the gray bitmap in the button). To the uninitiated, this behaviour might seem very

Re: What's the logic behind that new footer in WRITER

2012-03-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
(I answered that directly. Just so you know...) ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [PUSHED 3-5-1] Simple UI fix

2012-03-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Thanks to all of you! Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [UX advise] Key navigation in ValueSet controls

2012-03-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Matteo, so, took me a while to find the courage to read that :) But good observations these are. Anyway, ... Is this behavior the expected/commonly accepted one? I would like to propose: * left/right motion should not wrap around from first to last (or last  to first) item. Moving

Re: [PATCH] [PUSHED] fdo#46193: Let the user copy error message from error dialog

2012-03-02 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, first: Dézsi, it's great that you care about our UI! Michael wrote...        Copying the text to the clipboard is a real minority use-case and doesn't deserve a prominent button in every dialog IMHO. As one of the UX-advise guys, I have to agree with that. Gnome solve the same problem

[Review 3-5] Simple UI fix

2012-02-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hey, Can you please review the following one-liner for inclusion in the 3.5 branch? (I don't know if it's too late for 3.5.1 already, but it's very simple, so if there are enough people to review this, then having it in 3.5.1 would certainly be cool.)

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Bug 44216: Drag and Drop Slides distorts object's height/width ratio

2012-02-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Christoph, Ivan, Hmm, is there any possible alternative? Yes, you could easily use the verbs Adapt [Objects] and Keep [Ratio] or similar. Take a look at: [1]. Overall, I'd love if we could do any new UI we have in a more Gnome-y way (I am a declared Gnome fanboy, sorry). Labelling buttons

Re: [PATCH] 39468 Translate German comments

2012-02-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Tom, On 25 February 2012 18:28, Tom Thorogood t...@tomthorogood.com wrote: This is my first submission; please let me know if I've done something incorrectly! Welcome to LibreOffice development! Well, there are two things that would be good: #1 It'd really help if you could use git

Re: [PATCH] [PUSHED] Translate German comments in connectivity

2012-02-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
[Sending this to the list now, too.] Hi Philipp, saw this as yet unpushed, so pushed it now! Thanks for your contributions, Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED]Bug 37210 - UI: Calc usability improvement: Merge cells on right mouse click

2012-02-23 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michael, Greggory, I had a look here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:OOo31_Usage_Feedback_Data.ods Apparently, it's the 33rd-most-used function in Calc (if this is indeed the .uno:ToggleMergeCells function, not the .uno:MergeCells function) and our context menu there has only

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED]Bug 37210 - UI: Calc usability improvement: Merge cells on right mouse click

2012-02-23 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michael, Greggory, I had a look here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:OOo31_Usage_Feedback_Data.ods Apparently, it's the 33rd-most-used function in Calc (if this is indeed the .uno:ToggleMergeCells function, not the .uno:MergeCells function) and our context menu there has only

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] System::Beep() removal

2012-02-23 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, so, I guess using sound in the right places is not a bad idea. Of course, having 60 random beeps across the codebase means we're mostly silent already (well, my experience of workingin LibO backs this up) – in other words: removing the remaining beeps won't hurt so much any more. What I'd

Re: [PATCH] [PUSHED] Translate German comments - final patch

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, pushed this with minor modifications. Thanks a lot for your work, Philipp! I hope you weren't already on this, Lionel... if yes, sorry. Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED-partially][PATCH]a better about dialog

2012-02-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Petr, I checked other applications, e.g. pidgin, xchat, gimp, kmail, evolution, firefox. They all have [Cancel] button in the about dialog. It is in the bottom right corner, like in the other dialogs. It is delimited from the text by a line. So, I did the same, see the attached

Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Making default tab prefix name configurable in Calc

2012-02-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Albert, At least I get two annoying bugs: 1) The cursor moves In front of the text when the Prefix is reverted. 2) When trying to delete text in the edit box, the last character sticks (can't be deleted). Does someone have a clue whats going on? Hm, no (not a coder I am). But can you

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Making default tab prefix name configurable in Calc

2012-02-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Albert, At least I get two annoying bugs: 1) The cursor moves In front of the text when the Prefix is reverted. 2) When trying to delete text in the edit box, the last character sticks (can't be deleted). Does someone have a clue whats going on? Hm, no (not a coder I am). But can you

Re: Android design?

2012-02-08 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, Michael,        Anyhow - thanks for getting involved ! I look forward to what you come up with. Hehe. Take a look at the amazing mock-up and ideas that Mirek has been working on for a while now: http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/ (No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet,

Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Re: [PATCH] optimized zoom to use more common intervals

2012-02-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, On 6 February 2012 20:49, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Fine (for me) :-) Guess so, then. Astron. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED-partially][PATCH]a better about dialog

2012-02-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, though well-intentioned, I actually forgot to add the design and ux-advise lists to CC. Doing that now... Astron. On 2 February 2012 19:22, Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Barış, Noel, First of all: Barış, wonderful that you took this up! Secondly: I am adding

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