Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Icon help for LibreOffice v.4.0 features website page

2013-02-02 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi K-J, Marc, all, On 2 February 2013 13:24, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol o...@sophia-louise.de wrote: Page not found Strange, my browser has no problem finding it..? In any case, the current icons there are normal LibreOffice icons for Writer, Calc, Impress [...] in the format 40px*48px. The

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-02-01 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, My conclusion is that no decision should be drawn based on guessing and personal preferences. Another aspect of this is that any preferences users might currently hold tell us nothing about how well an interface eventually works for users. All the current study tells us about is the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Björn, On 30 January 2013 20:18, Björn Balazs bjoern.bal...@user-prompt.com wrote: You haven't: We did an expert rating (that what I wrote - and to add some more flesh to it:) with two experts (Heiko and me) working independently and discussing were categorization differed. Not sure if

Re: [libreoffice-design] LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Thibaut, Heiko On 29 January 2013 23:04, Thibaut Brandscheid randal...@web.de wrote: Hi Astron Thanks for your detailed answer. I can't promise to do the data analysis in the wiki but will have a look at it. Thanks! I have uploaded the file to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Heiko, @Astron: I was looking for OO's tracking results some time ago. The data is not accessible anymore. It would be great to have good data to analyse and even better if it comes from LO. Oh. Didn't check the link if it's still available. Sorry. I still have copy on my local disk,

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Björn, Sorry for stepping in here. The results are just what it says in the post. Yes, we did an analysis of data that was not gathered for this kind of analysis in the first place. As it cannot be used to proof any hypothesis (no statistical study can anyhow - read Popper on this topic)

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Wolfgang, all, On 30 January 2013 18:37, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: MS has always been at the antipode of ergonomics. And they keep moving in the *wrong* direction. Ribbons as well as the totally ridiculous Windows 8 GUI - try to accomplish *any* work with it, you'll rather end

Re: [libreoffice-design] LO Writer UI Analysis

2013-01-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Thibaut, this all looks really, really nice. I haven't read everything yet, but I wanted to comment on some things at least: 1. Needed UI elements = [...] Image: http://ubuntuone.com/7TZkH1e7vo88B637NEIjEc Well, the interesting thing is that we actually have data about how

[libreoffice-design] SVG files for your 4.0 branding proposals

2013-01-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi everyone who's submitted a branding proposal, I've just noticed there's been a bit of an oversight in our whiteboard – it says nowhere that you should include a source file (preferably SVG) with your proposal. So, if you're made a proposal and you're reading this, please upload your source

Re: [libreoffice-design] Splash screen LO 4

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, Re: this: Not sure the whole 3D part is such a good idea... ? Indeed we tend to promote rather simplistic interfaces and elements. The whole 3D part makes me think of an old fashion design. Javier, I'd invite you to read our branding guidelines (they are linked from the Whiteboard

[libreoffice-design] The Tango Save Icon (Cabinet v/ Diskette) Under Discussion Again

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, just before Christmas [1], Björn wrote a nice blog post about our new save icon and how it fails to convey its meaning... http://user-prompt.com/about-antiquated-metaphors-in-icons/ I guess we need to discuss reverting to the diskette icon... What do you think? Astron. [1] I didn't

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Facebook page

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Steve, On 8 January 2013 23:52, SteveBell steveb...@gulli.com wrote: I disagree. Facebook is a real problem and voicing general concerns with the idea behind Facebook is legit and honest. Sure, but doing that in your first post might leave a weird impression. Also, I don't really see how

Re: [libreoffice-design] Author of current splash screen?

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Pedro, I guess I am the culprit. The thing is, most of what I did was recolouring Andrea's splash screen a bit to better fit our branding colours. So no real need to credit me... Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Author of current splash screen?

2013-01-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Pedro, Ok. So I'll give credits to Andrea. Good. In any case it would probably make sense to have the svg publicly available here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Visual_Elements It is still in my Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/87946285/libreoffice/shadow-intro-source.zip ...

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat

2012-12-01 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello all, I won't be there for the chat now. In any case, here's the ESC update: + please keep using the Windows button order on dialogues converted to UI files + ftr, that order is: [OK][Cancel] (or more generally: [primary button][secondary button]) + at some point in the future, Caolan

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-design] Send Feedback Option

2012-11-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Rob, all, here's a link to an HTML mockup: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/87946285/libreoffice/feedback/feedback-page.html Note a few things: * there's probably a lot that can still be done with the design (albeit this one has already taken me embarrassingly long, or at least longer than I hoped) *

Re: [libreoffice-design] problem with color gradiations and pdf export

2012-10-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Dieter, On 26 October 2012 13:31, Dieter Strzempek d.strzem...@gmx.de wrote: Hi everyone, im designing new templates for impress. when i use a radial, color gradiation in the backgound, and export the presentation to a pdf, i get a bad result. the gradiation in the pdf looks like a dart

Re: [libreoffice-design] Android Remote icon

2012-09-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Alex, are there any updates on the icon? Or something we should help with? Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Font repository integration

2012-09-11 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Olivier, all, just about the Burmese font bit: that's not the in-development feature. Rather than that, it is likely some sort of PackageKit integration where LibO notices it isn't yet have a package for a Burmese font installed and then asks you about that. (But, I have to admit I wondered

Re: [libreoffice-design] Control elements in a partial-formal document

2012-09-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Lars, I guess you should mail the developers mailing list, since the design team doesn't deal with the underlying technology that much. the address of that list is libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org, by the way. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-design] Re: Higher‐resolution OpenDocument icons for Mac OS X

2012-08-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Nicholas, I am taking the liberty to add the design list into CC here... Astron. On 27 August 2012 16:58, Nicholas Shanks nicksha...@nickshanks.com wrote: Since I am unable to compile LO, I figured I would work on the artwork a bit. I noticed that the Windows .ico files included a 256px

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some new icons

2012-08-22 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Sveinn, it's probably worth noting that you don't have to ruin your icon set any more to try out different icons in LibreOffice 3.6. What you need to do, is go to the folder where there images_*.zip are stored, and create a new folder there, with the same name as the corresponding zip file.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Fwd: Re: Themeing by Libreoffice

2012-08-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello blackcrack, please note that our mailing list uses English as the working language, so (in the interest of all the not-so-German-enabled) it'd be a good idea to use that instead. In any case, we recognise that the toolbars of the Windows version of LibreOffice 3.6 may not look perfect and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Looking for a new splash screen

2012-07-19 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Klaus-Jürgen, We have a big, big mistake with our Splash screen [4]: It don't follow our own branding [1] and guidelines because the LibreOffice without TDF isn't in one line with the logo. Andrea's will do [5]. There's not so much to worry, * There are two versions each of the splash

Re: [libreoffice-design] Templates for Stefan

2012-07-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Alex, they're in. :) http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-6id=01e1714d0cb613cb192c7dc8e997789ec1aa73aa Stefan. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] User research, Icon-Testing et al.

2012-07-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Björn, sorry for not doing anything on Userweave these past days ... I was updating splash screens and such... will try to get back to the icon testing thing next week or so. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] [IconTesting] - What to test?

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Björn, here's a couple of proposals for icons to test: * the Styles and Formatting icon (especially the one in Tango) * the Save icon (diskettes, cabinets, hard drives ... do users find this confusing?) * the metaphor of the Format paintbrush * Crop (present only in Impress/Draw) – we use a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles?

2012-06-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Alex, Overall: great. I like the coloured accent very much. There are a couple things, though: #1 Would you mind removing the small-caps from the headlines? These aren't font-provided small caps, but forced ones whose proportions differ from what a typographer would provide with a font (i.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Are you okay with those new default styles?

2012-06-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Olivier, First, the choice of fonts and colors are a matter of taste, which is an endless debate... Sure, yet... staying with Arial and TNR, aping Office 2000 is not really an option either, though. Second, - I have not tested -  LO may warn me that my legacy documents have new default

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design ethos

2012-06-11 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, just a quick note: the log for yesterday's meeting is now up https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings/2012-06-10 we quickly touched upon the issues discussed here (see the parts from 18:59–19:05 and 19:58–pretty much the end). Also, I'm happy to announce that we might have

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Looking for a new splash screen

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Adolfo, For the in-program artwork, it's right, we just need PNG's However, there are two reasons why we want SVG: #1 License compliance: the LGPL license say that you have to be able to show the source for any given part of a covered work. It is a bit of a stretch to try to apply a software

[libreoffice-design] Looking for a new splash screen

2012-06-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi everyone, For the 3.6 release, we'd like to have a new splash screen, thus, if you're feeling creative, please submit designs in here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Playground/Splash_screen There are a few constraints: * add your entry until June 29, 2012, 0:00 GMT * please

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat

2012-06-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, I wouldn't mind doing it on Sunday, either. So, unless anyone else really wants to come to the Saturday meeting, ... let's do it on Sunday. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat

2012-06-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, I wouldn't mind doing it on Sunday, either. So, unless anyone else really wants to come to the Saturday meeting, ... let's do it on Sunday. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] [Patch] Make new About dialogue a little nicer

2012-06-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Klaus-Jürgen, Have you tried to do it with a darker green background and white writing and rectangles like these business cards [1] and some other artworks? I haven't, though it should be pretty easy for you to do it yourself (it would probably look cool, but I really want to get off this

Re: [libreoffice-design] Play with the Windows look

2012-06-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, To be honest, I'd prefer a solid-color menu bar, but as both you and Kendy insist on using Aero glass in the menu bar and I could care less about Windows, how about something like this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Doze3.png ? By no means am I insisting on that – I do

[libreoffice-design] [Patch] Make new About dialogue a little nicer

2012-06-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, Since I noticed, the beta is supposed to be tagged today or tomorrow already and we in the Design team had talked about our new About thing a little... and I also don't seem to have anything to do... I made this patch for About. It does the following: * it removes the bevel from the SVG

[libreoffice-design] Re: About dialogue

2012-06-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Okay, scratch that. I just found time to work on this... so, I've sent a patch to the ux-advise list (accidentally not to the dev list). It does most of what I hoped for, except that it doesn't make the buttons links. See the other thread I just opened. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions:

[libreoffice-design] Re: About dialogue

2012-06-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi William, ah, you don't understand: it's not a mock-up, it's implemented. (The patch however was scrapped on the design list, but you can see it under [1].) About the close button: Under Gnome 3, modal windows don't get a close button in the titlebar (usually they don't get a titlebar either).

Re: [libreoffice-design] Document Saved indicator

2012-06-03 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, @Christoph: Well, that was the case some versions ago - then the current behavior (save icon is always active) has been introduced. Reason: There has been customer feedback targeted at the Sun OOo UX Team that people wish to press that button at any time - just to be sure that the

Re: [libreoffice-design] ESC call

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Alex, I planned to be there. Maybe you want to try again this week, though, since you had such bad luck last time..? Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-design] ESC call

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Clarification: Maybe you want to try again this week, though, since you had such bad luck last time..? That was supposed to mean that I'll be there either way, but two people hopefully won't hurt too much. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] ESC call

2012-05-31 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, so, because there are precious few slots I attended only part of the call – thus, for the future: it's not a good idea to have two designers on the call. * Michael determined that we need a new splashscreen, I offered to help (because we really do finally need a splashscreen that

Re: [libreoffice-design] proposal for writer's Insert menu

2012-05-30 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Michel, Steve, Mirek, +1 to Mirek's view. If you want to make a proposal based on usage, please use something like http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:OOo31_Usage_Feedback_Data.ods as the basis, not just your own usage. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: New icons in Tango

2012-05-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi ape, sorry for not replying.  Why are the icons from the archive (http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3925928/changecase_images_tango.7z) are absent in images_tango.zip LibreOffice-3.5.4rc1? Please don't expect new icons in a bugfix release (unless it's urgent). If at all, they

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: EPS logo

2012-05-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, Now that Sveinn posted her results ... I see the problem (yes, even with the PDF's linked to). I tried to coerce Inkscape into giving me useful EPS files ... but it doesn't look like it can. Thus, here's my try at helping: I exported it to a srsly large PNG. It is still in RGB mode, but

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: EPS logo

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Isabelle, Sorry for my ignorance, but what's the problem with scaling the provided EPS up? Isn't it the whole point of vector images that you can make them as big or small as you want them with the only possible quality loss coming from the thing they're displayed with (here dots of printer

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-05-24 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello all, I've updated the proposal with data bars/color scales in mind... https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Conditional_Formatting I've tried to describe it in the wiki... if there are questions, don't hesitate to ask. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin

2012-05-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Klaus-Jürgen, all, And my draft (2012-03-02): http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Conference_Logo_2012Berlin_color.png Wonderful! I've had ~1 big complaint about it, namely that the Victory Column is higher than the 1px grey separator line (which seems like it should be the thing

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin

2012-05-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
should be the thing in the logo). the _highest_ thing, I meant. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design principles

2012-05-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Mirek, great effort to do that! It seems to be based on Android's UI design principles... amiright? I'd like to comment on the goal of being focused: Focus on doing ONE thing well. Writer is for producing great-looking documents, Impress for supplementing a great speech, Calc for

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC Chat: GSoC

2012-05-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, sorry for not being there ... exceptional circumstances. I'd be interested in the full transcript, though... there only seems to be a part of it available. Does anyone have the full version? Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design principles

2012-05-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, Even an advanced office suite needs to be focused. As I specified, I see Writer as a tool to create great-looking documents. That doesn't mean it can't export to HTML -- of course it can. An HTML document is just as valuable as an ODT document. What it does mean, though, is that

Re: [libreoffice-design] Think, don't just do - WAS: Impress remote

2012-05-02 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Mirek, Björn, from Björns mail: I have offered this before and I do it again now. I am willing to help you defining the requirements. I can help you to conduct the user research to find and validate the requirements. I can help you to deerive the needed artifacts, like personas,

Re: [libreoffice-design] Think, don't just do - WAS: Impress remote

2012-05-02 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
I absolutely agree with Mirek. Your offers have always seemed relatively vague to me. I would find it very interesting to know how to best work with what you have to offer. It's late already... excuse my awful wording. Also, Björn, I am sorry for seeming so harsh in my first reply to this

Re: [libreoffice-design] Think, don't just do - WAS: Impress remote

2012-05-01 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Björn, In the past I (and many other experienced design and usability people) more or less left this group / mailing list. This is definitely not due to a lack of interest - I still read a lot of the stuff written here. Sure, it's a huge problem that we don't have any UX professional as a

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re: [libreoffice-design] Writer background image - contest! :-)

2012-04-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, I've done a little mock-up of some changes of colour (strictly for Windows Vista and up, when using Aero or Aero Basic as the theme): https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Mainwindow-win7-mockup.png [1]. The icons in my mockup may be pretty random, but I think the Tango style

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Markus, As already discussed in Hamburg I'm happy with the current proposal but I have one point that I only noticed today. Would it be possible to add a concept for data bars and color scales? Possible, certainly. I think, in the combo box Cell value is we'd need a third choice like

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin

2012-04-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Jayme, For logo creators: I’d suggest not using clichés like the Eiffel Tower this time. Create something less generic and more meaningful. And please don’t use Helvetica, just Vegur. Obviously, you're free to create a proposal that aligns with your ideas... anyway, please don't hate on

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin

2012-04-29 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Tor, But is it more politically correct? In the open-source context? Maybe, then again, it is a blatant copy of the Adobe's Myriad font (whose most famous current user is probably Apple). Also, Helvetica has far more copies and some are far better than the original (in terms of glyph

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-28 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Andrew, what are these data bars and color scales you speak of? could you like to the concept for them if you have one? take a look here: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/microsoft-excel-2010-data-bar/ and here:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Writer background image - contest! :-)

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, Kendy, One more idea -- could you change the font drop-down menu into an icon menu? That's a little off-topic now, innit? It's probably best to start a new topic for that... (but I hear Kendy is open to such proposals!) What makes the task of changing the entire chrome hard is

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Pierre, 1. For the record: the ability to create a new style is one of the items of the list of styles. Yes, that's the intention. 2. I understand that we will defer the option of sorting conditions. However I disagree with the proposition the Add button Appended to the last

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC reminder

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, Andrew, okay, then, seems my assumptions aren't true, so let's keep 1600 GTC. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Change The Main Program's Window

2012-04-27 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello ape, Andrew,  1. The file backing_left.png includes the post address TDF (under the logo). This is important in the image. I can't really see the use of having the post address there. In fact, even having the logo there is debatable from my point of view. (Users mainly want to _use_ the

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC reminder

2012-04-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, Mark your calendars for this time every week, as this is the last reminder I'll post. Hehe. So, one of the things I've been pondering is the following: how about doing the chats an hour/two hours earlier? (I know it would fit me better, and maybe others see this similarly.) Astron.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Color handling

2012-04-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Zak, What I need LibO to do is handle a corporate color palette easily. I have managed to edit the relevant files (.GPL) for Inkscape and GIMP - but LibO is proving more difficult. A number of Google searches highlights that it does not appear straightforward to swop or make default my

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC reminder

2012-04-26 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, The time is based on the Doodle poll we took [1]. Me knowey. 16:00 GMT suited most people. Given that you can't attend quite often, Andrew has usually apparently gone to sleep already at that time ... I wonder if that is actually true. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-design] [RFC] tweaked b/w TDF logo for letterheads, stamps etc.

2012-04-21 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Thorsten, mostly, I thought it looked good. I've edited it a tiny bit, to make the logo as large as the text and also trying to enforce the 1/2 width of a document symbol distance everywhere. I've added a variant (the bottom one) that should work without the Vegur font being installed (i.e.

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] conditional format dialog

2012-04-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello all, so, there was a quite a long silence... In the meantime, I've started a Whiteboard on a redesign for the conditional formatting feature in Calc at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Conditional_Formatting In the end, I decided that while I generally liked my

[libreoffice-design] Design-themed Hackfest

2012-04-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello all, I am quite excited to share with you the following from Michael Meeks: I'd love to get more of the design team's ideas turned into easy hacks - which (I think) would prolly be the best outcome of a hack-fest - getting developers to sit down and read around code in given

Re: [libreoffice-design] Writer background image - contest! :-)

2012-04-19 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, just FYI, there were people some time ago that wanted to add a document background: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/DocumentBackground To me, the idea seems sensible, but just as Mirek said, just adding a document background doesn't make the application that much

Re: [libreoffice-design] questions about the status bar

2012-04-19 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Andrew, (Lots of IMHO's ahead, so beware.) I use it sometimes, it's useful when you are translating or creating a document in multiple languages (like instruction manuals) it sets the auto-correct to the language you are currently using, which is useful. It might not be used by most users

Re: [libreoffice-design] wheres the IRC meeting log?

2012-04-16 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Andrew, sorry forgot to link to it. It's there now. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-design] Windows 8 version?

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Alberto, first: welcome to the design list! On 13 April 2012 11:05, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think the developer team plans to support Windows 8 Metro anytime soon, so any work on it would be futile right now. I guess that is true, sadly. Hopefully, the Android tablet port

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat + whiteboards

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, I don't remember seeing Daud, Michelr, or S.Gecko anywhere on the mailing Rafael Daud was at the chat last week – without saying anything. Oh, ok. Saw that in the log... Michel ... haven't heard anything either. S. Gecko's whiteboard has been hijacked by Andrew anyway. So, I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Updated Whiteboard template with more instructional text

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, I'd prefer to keep the current summary, basically because it's a good example of what a whiteboard summary should look like -- a single sentence that precisely summarizes the purpose of the whiteboard. Well, besides teaching me a new word (pithy) (thanks!), I am not completely

[libreoffice-design] New icons in Tango

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, 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... I'd like to make up for that lack of discussion. Thus, I've created a wiki page

Re: [libreoffice-design] New member

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Jean-Francois! It's great to have you on board. I can only second Mirek, great to have you here. The solution you proposed for the document margin problem is pretty elegant after all. :) Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-design] Updated Whiteboard template with more instructional text

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, I'd like to propose some more changes to the Whiteboard Template, see here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Astron/Whiteboard_Template So, what has changed: * under Summary, there's now some instructional text (it's incomplete, but that's a feature, I wanted to be brief

Re: [libreoffice-design] Change The Main Program's Window

2012-04-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Ape,  Archive main_window.7z contains images that I use. Interesting idea to remove the document icons from there. But why did you do that? The Templates icons you made seems a bit cluttered to me. The Open icon is interesting but doesn't fit with Tango. However, it should, since we need

Re: [libreoffice-design] Android UI rework

2012-04-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Jonathan, Kévin, Agreed, there are so many ways that we could take this i think for now we just keep it simple and move forward with the work. then adapt and recode as necessary. I guess the best would be just having something like the start center and then if the user taps on open a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: A Whiteboard template

2012-04-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, all, I noticed that Gnome have these nice stars to signify what stage a proposal is in, so I wanted to do something similar. Thus, in the last couple minutes I fixed up this status timeline (not a real timeline since multiple states can be active at once):

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: A Whiteboard template

2012-04-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, thanks for the feedback. I've updated my page accordingly. I like the general idea, though I'd prefer to use call for proposals or something along those lines rather than designs wanted so that we use the term proposals (same as the section name), then have something like analysis

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tango Icons

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Cedric, I figured out that the folder icons in our Tango theme are greyish while the ones from the official Tango project are blue. That's a misconception. Tango is an icon style, not an icon set. The official set is a bit of a proof of concept, with extra-liberal licensing applied so

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Tango Icons

2012-04-04 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, Cedric, Ape, Theme Tango includes a lot of Theme Industry's icons (Gnome-1), which have a gray color. Project Tango no has many icons, which are needed for LibreOffice. Right, this point from Ape might apply and hit you quite hard. It would be a good idea to check which separate

[libreoffice-design] IRC logs

2012-04-01 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi, we just had our 2nd weekly design chat, the IRC log is available here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: REMINDER: IRC discussion is now! :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Design team IRC chat)

2012-03-25 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Christoph, all, sorry for not being there at all when I said I could be... I was occupied with other stuff, and then seemingly didn't really get the GMT bit (else I would have risked at least with half an eye). Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Design team IRC chat

2012-03-21 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, On 21 March 2012 09:09, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Christoph, I'm referring to the Issues and User Requests section, which does include suggestions such as the link to Jef van Schendel's Blog post. Not really an issue, though. That specific thing was my sole addition to

Re: [libreoffice-design] a question about adjusting the width of table in Writer

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hello Phelostor, The default table setting is extending the table horizontally to the left and to the right page margins, and in Table Format dialog when I need to set specific width of the table, I have to change the Alignment option first, then the check box of Width could be available. I

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Design team IRC chat

2012-03-19 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, I've had a conversation with Alexander Wilms on IRC today and we've decided that it would be productive if the whole Design team could meet on the IRC to discuss relevant LibreOffice UI/design topics. We could start with the Actually, it would be a great idea if we could meet on IRC

Re: [libreoffice-design] Vertical zoom slider

2012-03-15 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Kendy, So - what about to only show the percentage in the right bottom corner always, and when the user places the mouse pointer over that, it would [after a short timeout] extend to left (or upwards - whatever works better for the users], and show the entire slider? If we're discussing

Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestions

2012-03-12 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Bhaavan, Maybe I should have changed the subject to something else before posting it on the dev list. In any case, I hope you eventually went through what is apparently the official channel for GSoC self-introduction, ie IRC, apparently. @Alex: thanks! Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi all, I meant both on hovering and on selection. Selection works on touch interfaces. Not that I could speak for Alex' intentions, but I guess that's a simple misunderstanding. I think double-click was supposed to close the dialogue and open the template. The alternative way to do that

Re: [libreoffice-design] Vertical zoom slider

2012-03-10 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi again, sorry for being so negative. And, partly I can understand the reasoning. For instance, ~no one needs an indicator for overwrite mode, in fact the whole overwrite mode functionality should go (it's confusing far far more often than it is useful). We didn't really need an(other)

Re: [libreoffice-design] Vertical zoom slider

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, what problem does this solve? Sure, we then have a slightly less crowded status bar, but on the other hand LibO's scrollbar will be shorter and less useful (cf. horizontal scrollbar in Calc). Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hello everyone.

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Maggie, Alex, On 8 March 2012 21:57, Alexander Wilms alexander.wi...@zoho.com wrote: git is a version-control system. It was first developed for the Linux and LibreOffice uses it too. Right. So it's a (better) replacement for things like SVN/CVS/... (The gist of these tools is that you

Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestions

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Bhaavan, I am adding the dev list (libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org) here... Astron. On 9 March 2012 12:27, Bhaavan Merchant bhaavanmerch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am Bhaavan Merchant, and am a 3rd year undergrad student. I have been a part of this mailing list for sometime and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Submit your Bold icons

2012-03-07 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
- Using different letters creates words. I noticed this in my Citrus UI mockups -- B for bold, I for Italic, L for Line, C for color, and H for highlight put next to each other make me read it as bilch, which is quite close to an English swear. Thanks for this gem. :) Astron. --

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Better branding (was: Re: Towards useful icon themes)

2012-03-06 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi ape, Christoph, On 1 March 2012 19:40, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: A.1 I agree, but the Chart had a green frame in the OpenOffice.org_Galaxy_ver.3.0. Also targets A.2, A.3. The basic decision we've made was to only highlight the most essential document types and that

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