Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-10 Thread Krisztian Pinter
Hi all! I created a patch with some of the suggested changes to see how they look: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/5901/ The "get more templates" button was moved to the template manager, it has a temporary icon. On 6 September 2013 16:18, Mirek M. wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM, E

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Mirek M.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Emir Yâsin SARI wrote: > > > 6 Eyl 2013 tarihinde 17:47 saatinde, Tor Lillqvist şunları yazdı: > > IMHO, it'd be great if LibreOffice could present each of its modules as >> completely separate applications, >> > > Hmm, that would mean LOTS of changes to our packag

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Emir Yâsin SARI
6 Eyl 2013 tarihinde 17:47 saatinde, Tor Lillqvist şunları yazdı: > IMHO, it'd be great if LibreOffice could present each of its modules as > completely separate applications, > > Hmm, that would mean LOTS of changes to our packaging and distribution on OS > X (something for which there isn't

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > IMHO, it'd be great if LibreOffice could present each of its modules as > completely separate applications, > Hmm, that would mean LOTS of changes to our packaging and distribution on OS X (something for which there isn't exactly an abundance of engineering resources), where there now is just

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Emir Yâsin SARI
Hi Mirek, 6 Eyl 2013 tarihinde 14:07 saatinde, Mirek M. şunları yazdı: > > > 4. Open/Templates buttons are very very big, and they look very alienated on > OS X. Have no idea about the other platforms. > > Ideally, these should be toolbar buttons, as in the proposal. [1] This is it! And wit

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Mirek M.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Alexander Thurgood < alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 24/07/13 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : > > > One major problem with document previews is that there are none for ODB > files. When one works with ODT and ODB files regularly (as I do), this > makes for

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-09-06 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Emir, On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Emir Yâsin SARI wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to point out some ideas of mine for the new start center as well, > > 1. Tabs labeled All, Documents, Spreadsheets etc. would look better if > they are located right under the window bar, currently they look l

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/08/13 09:42, Tor Lillqvist a écrit : > > Well, the whole Start Centre concept is alien to OS X and Windows if you > ask me... That we use it on those platforms, too, is just because we > don't have resources to DTRT. > Yup. For example, when you launch the Pages application, you get the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/07/13 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : One major problem with document previews is that there are none for ODB files. When one works with ODT and ODB files regularly (as I do), this makes for one ugly startscreen, interspersed with ODT previews and Base app icons. Unfortunately, I do not k

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > 4. Open/Templates buttons are very very big, and they look very alienated > on OS X. Have no idea about the other platforms. > Well, the whole Start Centre concept is alien to OS X and Windows if you ask me... That we use it on those platforms, too, is just because we don't have resources to D

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-26 Thread Emir Yâsin SARI
Hello, I'd like to point out some ideas of mine for the new start center as well, 1. Tabs labeled All, Documents, Spreadsheets etc. would look better if they are located right under the window bar, currently they look like they've been pressed down by the Open/Templates buttons and LibreOffice

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-18 Thread Mirek M.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mirek M. wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure < > jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Le 14/08/2013 08:51, Mirek M. a écrit : >> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure >> > mailto:jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.o

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-18 Thread Mirek M.
Hi, On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure < jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Le 14/08/2013 08:51, Mirek M. a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure > > mailto:jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org>> wrote: > > > > Hi Krisztian, > > > > Le 24/07/2013 1

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi Krisztian, Le 24/07/2013 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : > Hi all! > > I'm working on this GSoC > project: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center Another problem with the current implementation: it seems not possible to browse th

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-16 Thread Krisztian Pinter
Hi! Thank you! In the original mockup, new document buttons were on the "all" tab, I just haven't added them yet in this first iteration, but I will later. All the best, Krisztian On 16 August 2013 14:34, Niklas Johansson wrote: > Hi Krisztian > > Nice work so far. > > I'm no UX-expert but

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-16 Thread Niklas Johansson
Hi Krisztian Nice work so far. I'm no UX-expert but one thing that struck me when trying out the new start center was that I did not immediately find how to open an empty document. I had to choose a category to find the new document button. Wouldn't it make sense to add all buttons (new docum

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, Le 14/08/2013 08:51, Mirek M. a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure > mailto:jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org>> wrote: > > Hi Krisztian, > > Le 24/07/2013 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : > > Hi all! > > > > I'm working on this GSoC > > project: >

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-14 Thread Mirek M.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure < jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: > Hi Krisztian, > > Le 24/07/2013 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : > > Hi all! > > > > I'm working on this GSoC > > project: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_t

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-08-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi Krisztian, Le 24/07/2013 18:16, Krisztian Pinter a écrit : > Hi all! > > I'm working on this GSoC > project: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center I just tried the first implementation of the new startcenter in the master. It is i

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-07-31 Thread Krisztian Pinter
Hi all! Sorry for the late reply! (Disclaimer: I'm not an UI designer, just trying to use my own flavor of common sense here, so I apologize in advance to any UI professionals if I say something very stupid. :-) Thanks for all the responses, and thanks Mirek for starting the whiteboard and creat

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-07-26 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Krisztian, On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Krisztian Pinter wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm working on this GSoC project: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center > > "Currently, the Start Center (the start screen you get when you start > Li

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-07-24 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Krisztian Em 24-07-2013 13:16, Krisztian Pinter escreveu: > Looking forward to your feedback! > Glad to know you are working on this.. and thanks to Kendy for mentoring. ATM there is no significant visual change. But I imagine the following f

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

2013-07-24 Thread Krisztian Pinter
Hi all! I'm working on this GSoC project: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center "Currently, the Start Center (the start screen you get when you start LibreOffice) is only a static bitmap, with few buttons and links. It would be useful to