On 25.02.2013 11:21, Andre Fischer wrote: > Am 25.02.2013 08:03, schrieb Xin Li: >> Hi Ariel, >> >> Thanks for your concern about the issue of color customization. I think we >> need to **discuss this issue as two parts: >> >> 1. Do we need to create the new look and feel for AOO? >> We always say that the current look and feel for AOO is out of style. We >> know that AOO just use the system color by default. But if we want AOO >> looks more modern and fashion, we need to do some change, we need to have >> new design for default look and feel. You can see that most of the PC >> software have their own default look and feel, like: MSO, Photoshop, Adobe >> Illustrator and so on. I think if the default visual style of software is >> good, the requirements of change color will be smaller. >> >> 2.User also can change to other colors if we have default new look and feel. >> We create new look and feel does not mean that we forbid user change color. >> User can also change color if they don't like the default look and feel. >> And I think the reasonable way is user can change the whole interface with >> sidebar to other colors. > I will try this week to find some time to play with the colors. On > Windows we are not so far away from the system colors, anyway. Maybe it > is good enough to use the cleaner look (not so many lines and boxes and > title bars as the old (Impress) taskpanel) together with the system > colors. Besides, the system colors still offer some choice. And we can > modify them a little bit like in the Impress slide sorter. Its selection > color is based on the system selection color but is made a little > brighter (I think). There are a lot of knobs to turn. Lets see what I > can do.
I have uploaded three screenshots (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac) for a slightly modified color scheme. Colors are based on system colors as provided by the StyleSettings class. I used the result of GetDialogColor() as base for most background colors. Panel, deck and tab bar use it unmodified. For the panel title bar I use a second color that is the dialog color with a modified luminance (-15). That same darker color is also used for the border around the deck. The border of tab buttons uses GetActiveBorderColor(). Please have a look: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Status I have not yet checked in my changes but will do if anybody is interested. -Andre > > -Andre > >> Thanks. >> >> 2013/2/21 Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> >> >>> Hi Xin Li, >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0800, Xin Li wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your votes and your feedback. >>>> >>>> I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : >>>> A1:8 A2:7 A3:6 >>>> B1:8 B2:8 B3:10 >>>> C1:3 C2:2 C3:5 >>>> >>>> For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line >>>> separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would >>> be >>>> best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators >>>> between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. >>>> >>>> For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would >>>> like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already >>> relate >>>> to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, >>>> the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We >>>> should do some light-weight change in AOO. >>> If you see something gray in the user interface, it is because your >>> system uses that color for painting that particular object. If a user >>> doesn't like gray, s/he has to simply switch the desktop theme. >>> >>> Moving away from the system's style settings only renders the sidebar as >>> something that does not "fit" with the rest of the application/desktop: >>> http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/sidebar/ >>> >>> These screen shots are from different GTK themes, the sidebar is >>> obviously not following the rest of the application (the Navigator is >>> side-by-side to show this fact). >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Ariel Constenla-Haile >>> La Plata, Argentina >>> >>
