On Monday 14 March 2005 3:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I have read the recent comments, I now have a question regarding the > GUI that is even more fundamental than the questions I asked in the > architectural-design document -- (a) is OOoBib designing a new > bibliographic GUI for OO, or (b) is OOoBib just modifying the current > GUI to include new functionality? I had assumed the answer was (a), but > now that seems incorrect. I think (A) is more correct. There is very little of the current GUI interface that is usable for us. Certainly nothing in the database or the Bibliographic data entry form. The Insert Bibliographic entry has to to be redesigned.
> Is it safe for me to assume that we are not > limited by the current bibliographic GUI design? I think it is possible our discussion is confusing several aspects of GUI. 1. There is the current OpenOffice GUI interface ie the features, functions and widget set. 2. There is the Design approach adopted by OpenOffice to get a common look and feel to the applications. 3. Then there is design of the actual GUI interface to the Bibliographic functions. I think we should try as much as possible to adapt 2. For 1. this may depending on who programs and in what language. If we use an other language and widget set then we should try to make look and act like the other OpenOffice applications. But I do not see us otherwise too much contained on our design for 3. regards David > > Matthias Basler's had already done a lot of excellent work on the > Version 1.0 GUI in his document, 'OpenOffice bibliographic project GUI > specification draft v0.2' in the OOoBib project library. I did the > architectural design to help ensure that the functionality for future > versions could be done as extensions to the V1.0 GUI. The next step is > to integrate our two documents together to define the conceptual and > logical designs for the GUI, but I do need to know the constraints. :-) > > Martha > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
