Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] alien format warning box buttons position

Hi Olivier, On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 12:35 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote: > In summary, the position of the "Save in ODF format" and "Save in MS > Office format" should be inverted when saving non-ODF files. My expectation is that clicking the bottom right button will continue to do what I alr

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] minutes of ESC call ...

On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 22:24 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote (19-12-13 21:24) > > * Pending Action Items: > > + need design for copying styles between templates (Cor Nouws/other UX?) > > cf. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-ux-a

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Carlito + Caladea

On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 00:53 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > I hope we'll be bundling Carlito [1] and Caladea [2], Google's metric > equivalents to Calibri and Cambria, and replacing Calibri and Cambria > with these fonts by default. I believe Caolan was looking into that. > I'm also wondering w

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] File menu thoughts ...

On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:37 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > Quick queries, dangerous future ... :) No real urgency. However - I think we need a good design for integrating cloud storage into LibreOffice in a way that doesn't just ram more cruft & horrible interactions into the 'File' menu, and

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] File menu thoughts ...

Hi there, Just a quick query; I rather like the idea of turning the 'File' menu into rather a more advanced / full-screen/window way of popping up details about the document, and eventually providing a more intuitive place to anchor - document statistics, embedding of images / multimedia e

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Refreshed Android Impress Remote

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 01:48 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > Also, could you upload some screenshots of the current > work-in-progress version? :-) > I noticed that, in your mockups, it's not indicated that one has to > swipe right/left to get to the next/previous slide. It'd be great if a > lit

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Math featire: Auto closing brackets and more

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 13:32 +, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos wrote: > > Michaels Meeks pushed now I changed that I did about the auto closing > > brackets, parenthesis and braces. > > Oh, this is lovely! Thanks so much, Marcos and Michael! Are we too > late to include the change in 4.1? No

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Refreshed Android Impress Remote

On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 19:12 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote: > I agree — the best interface is no interface. As known as “just works”. :-) > We should consider other users who use many computers with LO and one > remote and so on. Of course, it should be possible. Just as having 2x u

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Refreshed Android Impress Remote

On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 02:29 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Impress_remote#GSoC_2013_proposal > > It would be great to hear your opinions and suggestions. > If you do not want to flood discussion threads you can send me a > private message.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Refreshed Android Impress Remote

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 01:00 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote: > I didn’t test any audio or video slideshows so I cannot be sure how do > they work. I’ll do it later, that part could be tricky… AFAIK they don't work ;-) or at least, I think streaming video to the mobile device to play is likely t

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Image Rotation in Writer

Hi Michel, On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 01:07 +0200, Michel Renon wrote: > The initial question was about a constrained rotation (+-90°) : > if it is the only allowed rotation, then 2 toolbar buttons are a logical > way. It's the usual practice on most gallery software. Right - and that is achi

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Articles about LibreOffice design process

Hi Michel, On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 01:10 +0200, Michel Renon wrote: > I inform you that I wrote a list of 9 articles about LibreOffice, > specially about the design process. The first starts here : > http://mr-consultant.net/blog/2013/04/thoughts-about-design-process-part-1-the-context/ So

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Finding a UX dev

On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 22:39 +0200, Michel Renon wrote: > > I'm aware of some funding for a developer to work on some crazy > > prototyping work for the UI at the moment. Unfortunately he has a > > pipeline of work that puts that a few weeks out :-) > > Is it an official TDF funding ?

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Finding a UX dev

Hi Mirek, On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:49 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > Compared to competitors, LibreOffice is lagging behind in terms of UX, > and, unfortunately, it seems like relatively little development is > happening in that area, often relegated to GSoC projects and Easy > Hacks, which don't always

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] new icon theme / facebook bits ...

On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 14:43 +, Issa Alkurtass wrote: > While I would love to have the icons in the master, I think > it's still a bit early for that. Fair enough :-) > What's currently been done is Writer's standard toolbars (default > view) icons, and I'm still changing them repeate

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] new icon theme / facebook bits ...

Hi there, https://www.facebook.com/documentfoundation/posts/552385418139358 Is encouraging I guess; it might help to enable this as an experimental feature in master so people can play with it ? Or would it be better to provide / distribute a .zip file from your repository that c

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Pivot Table data provider extension framework (removal possibility)

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:24 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > I have a cunning idea. Since one of the difficulties on this is to reach > out to the actual users of this functionality, I'd like to remove the > 4th check box from the current pivot table data source selection dialog > in 4.1 (and mayb

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] impress: text color context menu ...

Hi there, I was talking with Chris at a presentation, and he was struggling with impress to change the text color of a bullet. Chris - for me I get that in the right-click context menu: 'Character' -> 'Font effects' tab at the top. On the other hand - playing with this it

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] EasyHack proposals

On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 20:18 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > Here are some additional EasyHacks, stemming from my discussion with Kendy: Incidentally - this is really important work ! :-) we always need new easy-hacks, and to have lots in the area of UI improvement is really a great way to get ne

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

Hi guys, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:56 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > Note: I will abide by whatever decision is reached The ESC discussed this precise issue in the past; and made a decision not to include the Ubuntu font, and because of that, this is the status quo today. No doubt someon

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

On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 17:11 +0100, Alexander Wilms wrote: > A quick fix would be to replace the vector graphics with pngs for the > time being. Should I do that? I'll get to fixing this for 4.0 - so I wouldn't worry :-) Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] minutes of ESC call ...

* Present: + Fridrich, Stephan, Andras, Joel, Caolan, Markus, Norbert, Bjoern, Thorsten, Ahmad, Astron, Michael M, Eike, Michael S, Petr, Cedric. * Completed Action Items + need to rename the MIGRATED flag and unwind / test re-migration (Michael)

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

Hi there, I had a quick read; it -looks- rather low-touch - and the graphic effect is really pleasant; so I'd be well up for merging this. ( git --no-pager log --numstat -u 255c03d6ad4ed13c456ee621e0af765684a475d2~..4a4627eba410df933d004170d9f5638526acaed2 ; git --no-pager log --numstat

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Impress - F5 vs. shift-F5 ...

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 23:49 +0100, Stefan Knorr wrote: > Which makes this less of a no-brainer. Which is why I asked :-) > At the same time, we currently also have 3 keyboard shortcuts for the > same function (Ctrl-F2 and F9 being the other two), of which F5 is only > the best known one.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Template manager : feedback

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 09:55 +0100, Stefan Knorr wrote: > If we can break down the local template folders in a way that all > subfolders are shown below on the first level, why doesn't the same work > with remote repositories ? Often latency is a killer with a remote protocol. Enumerating

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Impress - F5 vs. shift-F5 ...

Hi there, Just got a suggestion from a user that people are familiar with: F5 to start presentation at first slide, and Shift+F5 to start at current slide. That would be an altogether trivial easy-hack to implement for a new developer. Any objections to me creating that ? Thanks,

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Template manager : feedback

Hi there, On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 09:24 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > Who has the right to decide how many folder levels the user should use > to organize his own data ? The UX team are broadly responsible for making our product as easy to use as possible - so in the end they are resp

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] new listbox in calc options pages

On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:11 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > I can make at least a beginning. > But can you confirm that the ideas that I wrote in my previous mail are > correct? That helps quite a lot before I start writing :-) They sounded correct to me. It is notable that last I tried eg. go

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Proposed changes

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Possibly, whatever happens, OSX people are going to moan that the app is > becoming more and more X11-like, and this won't be helped by the fact > that Glade was chosen to further dialog-UI development, even if it is > converted to VCL.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Crash recovery dialog

Hi Kendy, On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 15:45 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > I've just got one more compliant about our crash recovery dialog - no > big surprise I guess. But this time with a good idea how to improve the > experience without having to touch that [== without too much work] ;-) :-

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] It is not with regret...

Hi Jose, On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 10:57 +1100, Jose Alonso wrote: > and the .docX format simply DOES NOT WORK in LibreOffice, or in (I > have just also checked) OpenOffice. Pictures and graphics do not > transfer, misinterpretation of formats is rife ! :-) So - LibreOffice is developed throu

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Fwd: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look]

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 15:51 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > If you think we really need an up-front ruler toggle, how about Hey - you argue convincingly against it IMHO :-) Cluttering the default menus with yet-another strange option is prolly also not such a great plan either. > putting it in

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Fwd: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look]

On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 14:02 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote: > there is nothing in LO bugzilla but in AOO you will find > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=99284 with a link to > http://www.libre-software.net/plea-for-hidden-rulers-in-open-office. > > For me it would only mean to add o

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Fwd: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look]

Hi guys, Thoughts on this ? I guess there are issues around seeing / creating tabs etc. ATB, Michael. Forwarded Message Subject: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look I have submitted a patch for review: https://ge

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice-qa] LO 3.6.2 : about Manage dialog from Conditional Formatting

Hi Pierre, On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 02:21 -0700, pierre-yves samyn wrote: > A great and beautiful work has been done, thank you for that. Agreed - it's rather lovely; thanks Markus :-) > I think it introduces a non-homogeneously managing of relatives references. > I do not see others dialo

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 11:07 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > I think this autofit feature is very disturbing if you are not > aware of it. From my point of view it should be removed > because if what you are writing does not fit in the available > room, you should write les

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Icons for conditional formats and final touches for the conditional format manager

3aab49fa3519ad4dd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Meeks Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:50:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] improve conditional formatting height calculations. Change-Id: If5080892b820d268ffef22111d0caee217586b56 --- sc/source/ui/condformat/condformatdlg.cxx | 37 +++

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Killed the ButtonBar in slide sorter

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 00:04 +0200, Stefan Knorr wrote: > I personally would have been more in favour of making the overlay bar > appear only after clicking on a slide where it could then have stayed, > until the user selected another slide. :-) Sounds like a reasonable approach to me too.

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Killed the ButtonBar in slide sorter

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:49 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > I agree with the header/footer thing. Heh - I think the general concept of things appearing instantly on a timeout you can't see, and then being click-able is a really bad one. We had this with header-footer widgets getting clicked by

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LO 3.6.2 : about Manage dialog from Conditional Formatting

Hi there, On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 06:35 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > Nobody interested to test and answer? Sigh - people are busy; in particular Markus - whose baby this is has just put in a great chunk of bug-fixing work for 3.6.2 / 3.6.3 to improve lots of conditional formatting co

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] new header / footer click-to-reveal bits ...

Hi guys, Cedric just made my week with fixing: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46141 To show the add header/footer controls only when a user clicks on the header or footer ( thanks Cedric ! :-) Of course it needs testing; particularly if it's is goin

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PATCH][REVIEW 3-6][REVIEW 3-6-1] Create the desktop icon (on Windows) again

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 18:52 +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Attached is a patch that I know you are not too happy about ;-) - change > the default of creating the desktop icon on Windows back to 'yes'. Patch itself seems reasonable; the ux-advise mail I saw seemed like we'd got confused ab

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Artwork licensing

Hi Mirek, On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 18:31 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > Given that it's unlikely that we'll get an okay from the Gnome icon > authors to relicense their work under the MPL anytime soon I wouldn't despair of that, I'll be at GUADEC to meet with them next week :-) For now we're using

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Citrus UI ...

On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:59 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > Anyway, here's the text I wanted to propose: I just dumped it across: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-gui/ Thanks ! :-) Michael. -- michael.me.

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Citrus UI ...

Hi guys, I was surprised to see this come across my inbox: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-gui/ AFAIK Citrus is one of many mockups / ideas for changing the UI, but (as of yet) is one of many, and has no developers working on it

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] FDO 47164 (increase backing window recent doc hot spot) Advice

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 09:47 +0200, Stefan Knorr wrote: > But: I don't think the width of the area is the only or even the most > important problem – the problem seems to be the clickable area. I've > attached a screenshot of the approximate clickable areas of the button: > the red area are brings

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Fwd: Ubuntu Templates

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 12:49 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > Also note that the old ones we are replacing werent exactly small either > (and contained bitmap uglyness). Yep - good perspective; the ESC agreed to get these into 3.6 ASAP as-is IIRC :-) Thanks ! Mic

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Fwd: Ubuntu Templates

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 10:09 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > I add all those and kicked out the old ugly ones. This seems to be working > fine > -- except for BrightBlue. Any idea what is different about that one? It loads > fine independantly, it also shows up correctly on the sidepane, but it

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] 2 Suggestions for improving the handling of Pictures in LO

Hi Ralph, On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 14:28 +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I hope it is not impolite to post UX suggestions to this list. It's really designed for developers to ask UX designers for input, and to improve that interaction. > 1) It is much too easy to change the aspect ratio of

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Header/Footer widget ...

Hi there, I was accosted at LinuxTag by a chap who had clicked in his footer area and had a footer inserted without wanting that, and of course deleting it throws your cursor to the top of the document loosing your place ;-) It seems he's right; the control there is sensitive from

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] A sheet by default

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 19:02 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > this trivial patch sets the default number of sheets in a new Calc > file down to one (as discussed on ux-advise). Found pushed :-) Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Enginee

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] white & black in color drop-down ...

On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote: > Sounds good. Pushed this one. > Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that > that they aren't somewhere between the other colors. IMHO we need an entirely new color-selection & palette metapho

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Another cry for unified behaviour in all documents

Hi Daniel, On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 12:33 +0200, Daniel Mania wrote: > As far as I understood, I am not the only one here who would like all > document types to behave the same. It is just too much work for anyone > to do anything about it. ... It seems likely that the discuss list, or the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] white & black in color drop-down ...

On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote: > Sounds good. :-) > Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that > that they aren't somewhere between the other colors. Not sure :-) many lazy people just pick from the immediately accesible colo

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] white & black in color drop-down ...

Hi there, One thing that has annoyed me in the past, but I'm not really a power user is hunting 'white' down the color selector list. Any thoughts on this rather trivial patch to move them together ? [ not pushed to msater ]. Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@su

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Tango for mac ? ...

Hi guys, I just noticed (fixing the default theme for LOOL) that the Mac builds have been using the Galaxy icon-set by default. Is that deliberate ? (I 'fixed' it to Tango in passing to simplify the logic), if that was deliberate, I can put it back of course. Thanks !

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

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 19:31 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > Could we vote on this issue, then? Hah - voting !? ;-) we are a meritocracy. If you want it, and Kohei wants it, and (so far) no-one has screamed against it, and: > I see that both Google Drive's Spreadsheet application and Ex

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Inclusion of Gnome Tango Icons?

On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 14:30 -0700, Alexander Wilms wrote: > They are licensed under LGPL v.3 or Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, would that > theoretically allow incuding those icons? We'd really prefer to have them under MPLv2 I think; asking jimmac / the authors for permission would be great

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Templates for LibreOffice

On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 12:23 -0700, Alexander Wilms wrote: > So what would I need to to in order to get these into LibreOffice? Commit access I think :-) Can you go through this flow: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests And mail me the bug number ? :-)

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New Templates for LibreOffice

Hi Alexander, On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 15:02 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote: > I'm Alex and member of the design team. I've created some templates, > mostly for Impress. Oooh ! :-) lovely, something that is long overdue. > Some of them are uploaded on templates.libreoffice.org and seem > to

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

Lovely ! thanks :-) No doubt Astron will be glad to see that cookie image die ;-) 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, and checking / removing them in ch

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] CALC: For empty cells MONTH() function returns '12' instead of error message

On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 07:57 +0200, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: > that's completely correct, but astonishing, as you can see in Bug 49135 > . Oh - I added some details there wrt. what we want to do for interoperability reasons. To some degree

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PATCH] thesaurus / vendor images ...

r if it is some marketing scheme to encourage commercial thesaurus providers ? or ... Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot >From 91e2251f4ccc84bdf9ffb048f1c994418e07e403 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Meeks

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PATCH] Mouse centered zooming

Hi Tim, On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 21:35 +0200, Tim Hardeck wrote: > During zoom out the direction is reversed to get back near the starting > point. This is disabled for Calc since it doesn't focus the center but > instead keeps the upper left cell where it is so reversing the zoom > direction feels n

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Writer Layout XML ?

Hi there, Are we showing this format as a file type in the 'Export' dialog deliberately ? :-) Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffic

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New icons in Tango

Hi Stefan, On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 13:03 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > 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... H

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

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 03:11 +0200, Markus Mohrhard wrote: > I just pushed a fix for fdo#33634 to master. This patch changes the > visual representation of borders significantly and I ask therefore for > testing and a ux look. We now display the borders based on the actual > width information and d

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Collaborative Editing

Hi Mirek, On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 12:38 +0200, Mirek M. wrote: > With the collaborative editing prototype out yet still a lot of time > before the feature gets shipped, it seems like a good time to have the > design team work on a design proposal for it. Certainly; of course, this in part d

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re: Disable auto-numbering by default

On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 09:27 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Cameron is now working on a real solution; the plan is that the > auto-numbering will be triggered when you enter 1. and hit [Tab] (or > ".[Tab]" in general); not as it is now that it triggers any time > when you hit enter in a paragraph t

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Google Summer of Code ...

Hi guys, So - it's the time of year when we want ideas for google summer of code students to hack on. *But* - these need to be small, reasonably well contained, and must have a (hacker) mentor who is enthusiastic about helping the person get the code done. Having said all that - I

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] LibreOffice for Android: Single app?

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 22:03 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > Will the LibreOffice port for Android be a single application or will > it be split into several applications, one per module? There's a technical answer there - in order for it to work adequately, and share OLE2 objects between compone

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

Hi Gregg, On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 23:05 -0700, greggory...@gmail.com wrote: > This is my second patch I've attempted (this is getting fun). I've > also attached the patch to the bug. Is there a standard approach to > this? Should I only attach in one place or another? Thanks for that, I pus

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

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 14:08 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Is it possible for you to polish my crystal bowl a bit, e.g. where do we > have those beeps. git grep -5 Sound::Beep and have a think about the context's ;-) > Just from what pops up in my mind, I think those happen when a u

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

Hi Thomas, On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:20 +0100, Thomas Arnhold wrote: > I recently discovered that there's a more or less complete usage of > acoustic beeps in Libo. This is done by System::Beep(). I did a grok for > "Beep" and got 59 results all over the code. I don't think that is much. > Is th

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] ux-advise advice

Hi Jean-Francois, On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 17:22 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > I may be somewhat long here and, hopefully, won't bother and take too > much of your (precious) time. :-) > Before I go any further, let me introduce myself Great to have you around, sounds l

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] ux-advise advice

Hi Jean, On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 14:00 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > Ah! Ah! I'm starting to get the real thing which has nothing to see with > what I was presented at first: this list is in *no* way for users to ask > for a change/enhancement to the devs! Right - we have few-t

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] ux-advise advice

Hi Jean Francois, On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 08:50 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > As I understand (correct me if necessary) this list goal -- which I find > excellent -- is to narrow the topic to actual user experience > enhancements Well - the idea is that this is a place that hac

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] The "no border text" feature in Writer 3.5 is not complete

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:47 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > I consider the text boundaries to be a visual clue to the page layout, > as much as the un-printable chars are. Completely dropping that feature > for the new "angles" (actual name?) is then inappropriate in that > regard. On

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] The "no border text" feature in Writer 3.5 is not complete

Hi NoOp, On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:31 -0800, NoOp wrote: > There will be much "you should have tested", "you should have pointed it > out earlier"; unfortunately, the primary users will not have discovered > the "improvement"/"feature" was released in the 'new & improved version' > and would not ha

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] calc background colors ...

On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 14:12 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > Implemented on master. > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ab0096ed68cdc08906f518d3499a8e1afc5ba80c Oooh ! pretty :-) Thanks for that Kohei ! :-) Sorry to distract you from the next round

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] calc background colors ...

On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:16 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > > "There's still a number of key combinations that Calc is missing > > (most noticeably ctrl-D to copy cell above), > > You mean fill down via Ctrl-D? That's been the default key binding > since 3.3 Doesn't work for

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] calc background colors ...

Hi guys, Trawling negative user comments (as we ought to to try to improve ;-) I saw this: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2671075&cid=39034649 "Well, they're obviously moving much faster than openoffice did. The product looks very clean, opens fast, an

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] fdo#37775 - EasyHack: Recent Documents not updated by Save & Save As...

Hi Muhammad, On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:58 +0200, Muhammad Haggag wrote: > It's possible to solve that without having to update the list on open. > We can intercept the beginning of the "Save As" operation and update > the list with the old document. I uploaded a new patch that does that > (and remo

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Android design?

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > 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/ They look nice :-) > (No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet, but there's

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Android design?

Hi Mirek, On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 23:11 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > A few questions from a design team member: Shoot ! :-) > I'm assuming the LibreOffice Android port will sport a UI different > from its desktop counterpart, without menus or dialogs and with a > simple file manager (as is the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Headers / footers / page break indicators & read-only documents

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:41 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > My opinion is that in read-only mode, LibO should feel as much as a > PDF reader as possible to avoid annoying the user while e.g. > proof-reading his own document or just reading someone else's > document. I hate plus-ones

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] [PUSHED] fdo#45285 - Use more revealing error message for not allowed sheet names

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:40 +0100, Albert Thuswaldner wrote: > Just a thought: should we push this to the 3.5 branch? This is a small > polish of the user experience and it might be good to have it in a > release soon Well - hopefully six months away is not -so- far - but I appreciate you

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Avoid UI bugs in translations

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 16:24 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > >Personally, I -love- this feature :-) it finally makes that dialog > > clear. Any chance whomever did this work (or some other kind volunteer) > > can add a screenshot and credit to: > > > >http://wiki.documentfound

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Avoid UI bugs in translations

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 21:30 +0100, Andras Timar wrote: > > "This document may contain content that cannot be saved in the > > currently selected file format "FORMATNAME". Do you really want to use > > "FORMATNAME"? > > > > To be sure the document is saved correctly, use the ODF format." ... > Than

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Floppy Disk ...

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 21:36 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > (I don't want to mess up 3.5, so for now, I'd rather leave it to > someone else to cherry-pick) Renamed the directory, and pushed to -3-5, Thanks ! :-) Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Ps

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] UI disaster on Windows: soffice -h

Hi Andras, On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:56 +0100, Andras Timar wrote: > I've just found this feature, soffice -h displays a dialog box on > Windows with some help text. Heh - what fun :-) > Problems: > 1. Dialog is not localisable. Help text comes from const char arrays > in desktop/source/a

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] Complete removal of the Windows/Linux quickstarter, was: Re: Removing LibO on Windows ...

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 16:34 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote: > > It's the OS's domain to (quickly) start applications, and OS's are > > pretty good at that. If you want to start anything particularly > > quickly on... Hey ho ;-) clearly the more cruft we can remove the better, but at least f

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Floppy Disk ...

So, Jakub pointed out that I got that lot re-licensed by Novell/SUSE in some heavy lifting process, and into the public domain; so we can include them into LibreOffice. On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:43 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > We'd really love to switch our 'Save As

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Floppy Disk ...

Hi Garret / Jimmac, First - welcome to a CC on our (lowish volume, fun to join, non-reply-to-mangling UX advise list for LibreOffice[1] ;-) We'd really love to switch our 'Save As' icon to the latest Tango version, but have some licensing queries: is there any chance we could get

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Floppy Disk ...

Hi guys, I just read a mail like this: [snip] As you all know the floppy disc is some thing out dated in the modern computer world. Why we still continue the "Floppy Disk" as the icon for "Save" button in LibreOffice? [/snip] And wondered: can we not just drop the updated Tango

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [REVIEW 3-5: Late feature] Improvements in the header / footer behavior

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:22 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > So - what I'll try to do is that the appearing will start later (not 1 > sec, but maybe 200 - 500 ms), but the functionality will be available > immediately when the mouse is there; so the impatient user who knows > where to click will be

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Input bar UX

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:00 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > I really love the new input line feature :-) Me too (as they say) :-) OTOH AFAICS we're missing a screenshot of it in action in the features page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 :-)

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Fix for fdo39748 Easy hack: Cleanup extensions list

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:17 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote: > > Anyhow - it looks great; no doubt we should add this to: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 > > With suitable credits etc. & close the bug. ... > Any reason why this patch does not show in 3.5 beta0?

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Linking media ...

Hi guys, So - one of the sexy features to hit LibreOffice 3.5 - that (sadly) hasn't hit the wiki page yet (Michael?) http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 Is the ability to embed Multimedia (ie. videos & audio) inside ODF documents :-) that avoids the common

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re-sizing handles ...

Hi Stefan, On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:27 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > I've finished up a patch to completely remove the Large Handles > option. In large part, it touches on the same files that Tim's patch > to remove Simple Handles did. Thanks for that - and sorry Tim for restraini

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