On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Calum Benson wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:48:03 +0000 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] GEdit, Leafpad and Office Suites > > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:14 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I definitely think that Calum's people > > > > "Calum's people" :) > > :) I rather doubt it would make a good John Le Carré novel...
I was thinking like "Pan's People" you know with dancing. > > > should investigate and research this office suite further as there are > > > lessons regarding the user interface that could be applied to Star > > > Office/OpenOffice.org > > > > Even though he works for Sun Microsystems I believe Calum is not directly > > involved in OpenOffice.org developement. > > True, I'm not... I can certainly pass along suggestions to Matthias and > the rest of our Star/OpenOffice UI team in Hamburg, though. Now that StarOffice has done the necessary Microsoft Office cloning needed to gain market share hopefully they will now have the chance to explore new ideas too. Although it made StarOffice a little bit harder to learn teh emphasise on paroperly using styles for layout always seemed like a good idea in the long run. Similarly the Lotus interface seems like it would be powerful once you had learnt what you were doing. I think though Microsoft has shown the benefits of making things as easy as possible for beginners, casual infrequent users, having a shallow learning curve to hook in users (and sneakier tactics to lock them in and keep them). As for fast light text editors you might also want to take a look at inittab which is the text editor included with GPE (Gnome Palmtop Enviroment (wish they had a catchier non-acronym name). With the help of Garnome I've compiled other GPE applications and used them on the standard Gnome desktop. It is really nice to have the option to use fast, light, focussed applications and I hope we will see more. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
