Re: [libreoffice-design] Mission ... I mean ... Team Completed?

2011-02-15 Thread Michel RENON
is missing), please add your stuff within the next 24 hours - thanks!!! As I'm very very busy at my work, I have no time to really participate so I didn't tried to add my description. However, I'll try to send some messages as soon as possible. Thanks, and bravo for your work on icons ! Michel Renon

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Team Kick-Off Step 4: Organizing our Work (... causing some work for you *g*)

2011-03-09 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 04/03/11 23:58, Christoph Noack a écrit : I've created a new wiki page for that - please feel free to add your thoughts. I also provided a more extensive introduction and a proposal for the text steps along with some roughly guessed times:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Team Kick-Off Step 4: Organizing our Work (... causing some work for you *g*)

2011-03-29 Thread Michel RENON
Le 17/03/11 00:16, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi Michel, sorry for not answering until now ... but today I'm happy to do it :-) Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 02:00 +0100 schrieb Michel RENON: Le 04/03/11 23:58, Christoph Noack a écrit : http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off

[libreoffice-design] Canonical reflexion about 'Quit' menu

2011-03-29 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Have you seen that blog entry ? http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/ It's very interesting and they talk about LibreOffice. Well, it's about a problem with LibreOffice's Quit menu... Michel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

[libreoffice-design] Questions about style name

2011-04-25 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Few days ago, there was a discussion about the style name : http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/msg01436.html As I've been teaching the basic of OpenOffice 2 or 3 years ago, I can confirm that the idea of style sheet is not obvious. But it seems to me that the name style sheet

Re: [libreoffice-design] New Whiteboards section in the Wiki

2011-04-25 Thread Michel RENON
Hi Christoph, Hi all, Le 20/04/11 21:09, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all, I felt free to add a section Whiteboards to the wiki - simply because of the fact that I needed a space where I could put something in-between idea collection and final specification. So if you have anything you are

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Questions about style name

2011-04-26 Thread Michel RENON
Hi Marc, Le 25/04/11 13:15, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2011-04-25 06:58, Michel RENON a écrit : Hi, Few days ago, there was a discussion about the style name : http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/msg01436.html As I've been teaching the basic of OpenOffice 2 or 3 years ago, I can

Re: [libreoffice-design] Questions about style name

2011-04-26 Thread Michel RENON
Hi Ricardo, Le 25/04/11 13:18, RGB ES a écrit : 2011/4/25 Michel RENONmichel.re...@free.fr: Hi, Few days ago, there was a discussion about the style name : http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/msg01436.html As I've been teaching the basic of OpenOffice 2 or 3 years ago, I can

[libreoffice-design] Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior

2011-04-29 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 29/04/11 07:15, Scott Pledger a écrit : Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... Yours Truly, Scott Pledger You're not the first to have this idea ;-) I digged into some folders and found the

Re: [libreoffice-design] special process for urgent ux items ?

2011-04-29 Thread Michel RENON
Le 25/04/11 14:18, Christoph Noack a écrit : [...] How to start, well, maybe we can do it in a collaborative manner to evaluate the issues without (at the moment) using the bugtracker - to me, it seems to provide a better overview. Once we have some selected items, we might ask the developers

Re: [libreoffice-design] Questions about style name

2011-04-29 Thread Michel RENON
Le 26/04/11 22:04, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi, [...] We discussed this issue many times at OOo, and I came to the following (personal) conclusion; we need ... * a more sensible selection of styles (e.g. attach the list styles to the paragraph styles intended for list use)

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VOTE] Christoph Noack as Design Team Lead focusing on UX

2011-09-26 Thread Michel RENON
Le 24/09/11 17:32, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi Christoph, all [...] Every other Design Team member: Please cast your vote! (Just add your name and +1 or -1 in a reply to this mail) +1 (at the last minute before the gong !) (Sorry for my silence these last weeks : I'm completely

Re: [libreoffice-design] [Fwd: [Bug 38889] Make macro editing easier]

2011-11-13 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 09/11/11 21:37, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all, anybody here who has some deeper knowledge (or interest) around managing macros? Bug 38889 (implicitly) asks for usability improvements for a corresponding dialog. I have done macro stuff ages ago, so I don't think I'm now qualified to

Re: [libreoffice-design] [Fwd: [Bug 38889] Make macro editing easier]

2011-11-17 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 13/11/11 19:32, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi August, hi Michel! Thank you both for offering your support. Do you think it might make sense to subscribe to bug 38889 (maybe adding a comment)? So other people will know that somebody will have a deeper look at the issue. Michel, if you

Re: [libreoffice-design] annnnnd we are back to square one.

2011-11-27 Thread Michel RENON
Le 27/11/11 18:22, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Andrew, To keep this simple and without shame of repeating myself: The developers cannot implement a complete redesign all at once. Therefore you need to push changes one by one. Little by little. In order to do this you need to write specification

Re: [libreoffice-design] annnnnd we are back to square one.

2011-11-27 Thread Michel RENON
Le 27/11/11 20:22, Andrew Pullins a écrit : And an important point : please create mockups in wireframe. Otherwise, the theme/aesthetic changes may disturb the UX analysis. [1] [1] http://uxopenofficeorg.**blogspot.com/2010/05/picture-**

Re: [libreoffice-design] annnnnd we are back to square one.

2011-11-27 Thread Michel RENON
Le 27/11/11 04:18, Andrew Pullins a écrit : Hello [...] can we get someone from the deve team to help us work on this road map. I know that some of them hang around here. I do not want to mess with what has already been planed but we should start to plan to change the UI. till then we the

[libreoffice-design] proposal for an easy design hack

2012-05-21 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, As I proposed during this weekend's chat, here is an idea about bullets and numbering : http://michel.renon.free.fr/LibreOffice/propal_20120521.png Don't hesitate to ask any question. Thanks, Michel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-design] proposal for an easy design hack

2012-05-21 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, As I proposed during this weekend's chat, here is an idea about bullets and numbering : http://michel.renon.free.fr/LibreOffice/propal_20120521.png Don't hesitate to ask any question. Thanks, Michel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

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

2012-05-29 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, As I proposed during my last chat participation, here is another easy design hack : a modification of Writer's Insert menu. I find today's insert menu not very usefull : most used commands are everywhere, beside unused commands. Here is my proposal :

[libreoffice-design] easy proposals now in my page

2012-05-29 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, To make it easier to read, I uploaded my 2 recents proposals in my wiki page : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr - enhancement for bullets and numbering icons - new insert menu in Writer Please reply with any comments, questions, or concerns. Thanks, Michel -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-design] easy proposals now in my page

2012-05-31 Thread Michel RENON
Hi klaus-jürgen, Thanks for your feed-back, Le 30/05/12 08:13, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol a écrit : Hi Michel, *, Am 29.05.2012 18:41, schrieb Michel RENON: Hi, To make it easier to read, I uploaded my 2 recents proposals in my wiki page : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rebranding doodling

2012-09-06 Thread Michel Renon
Hi Alex, Le 01/09/12 14:29, alexander.wilms a écrit : Hi everyone, An idea that's been floating around in my head for some time was making 3d meshes part of the motif, so I started drafting something: http://ubuntuone.com/7Ga5G3sb4B9tURr2U5pkyQ I used Open Sans instead of Vegur, since it

Re: [libreoffice-design] Android Remote icon

2012-09-23 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 20/09/12 15:47, Stefan Knorr (Astron) a écrit : Hi Alex, are there any updates on the icon? Or something we should help with? Astron. Here is my (very very) simple proposal : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr#Icon_for_Android_Remote it's just to test the idea :

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Killed the ButtonBar in slide sorter

2012-09-26 Thread Michel Renon
Hi Cor, Jan, Le 25/09/12 16:00, Jan Holesovsky a écrit : [...] Therefore the good OpenOffice.org developers and people conducted a large project some years ago, Renaissance. Of course the toolbar is one of the changes the was a result from that. I guess all the work was done, because many

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Killed the ButtonBar in slide sorter

2012-10-02 Thread Michel Renon
Hi Jon, Le 26/09/2012 16:34, Jan Holesovsky a écrit : Hi Michel, Michel Renon píše v St 26. 09. 2012 v 13:45 +0200: UI decisions should be taken based on facts, analysis, polls, statistics. So this is the statistics I have at hand: Several people angry about a feature, and nobody praising

[libreoffice-design] color picker prototype v1

2012-11-12 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, As proposed during the last chat, here is a correct prototype : http://michel.renon.free.fr/libreoffice/colorpicker_20121112/ Start by clicking on the red rectangle in the fake toolbar. You can click everywhere, except when something gets dimmed : it means it's just an image without

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: 4.0 Branding poll

2013-01-29 Thread Michel Renon
Le 29/01/2013 13:39, Daniel A. Rodriguez a écrit : Agree, for now, I guess it would be good if we all voted like Adolfo above. Else, we'll just stumble over lots of calculation errors (people posting at the same time etc.). (Imho, a saner mechanism would have been to ask for everyone's top three

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: 4.0 Branding poll

2013-01-29 Thread Michel Renon
Le 29/01/2013 15:33, Michel Renon a écrit : Le 29/01/2013 13:39, Daniel A. Rodriguez a écrit : Agree, for now, I guess it would be good if we all voted like Adolfo above. Else, we'll just stumble over lots of calculation errors (people posting at the same time etc.). (Imho, a saner mechanism

Re: [libreoffice-design] RE: What Happened to the Flat Icon Set

2013-02-18 Thread Michel Renon
Le 18/02/2013 08:06, Emir Yâsin SARI a écrit : +1 And monochrome icons are the ideal icon types for a possible native OS X interface. For that reason it would be logical to have a complete monochrome/flat icon set at hand. Emir (it's not a direct answer to you Emir, but to the whole

Re: [libreoffice-design] RE: What Happened to the Flat Icon Set

2013-02-18 Thread Michel Renon
Le 18/02/2013 11:09, Michel Renon a écrit : Le 18/02/2013 08:06, Emir Yâsin SARI a écrit : +1 And monochrome icons are the ideal icon types for a possible native OS X interface. For that reason it would be logical to have a complete monochrome/flat icon set at hand. Emir (it's not a direct

[libreoffice-design] Articles about LibreOffice design process

2013-04-10 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, I inform you that I wrote a list of 9 articles about LibreOffice, specially about the design process. The first starts here : http://mr-consultant.net/blog/2013/04/thoughts-about-design-process-part-1-the-context/ If you have very few time, you can just go directly to last, the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-10 Thread Michel Renon
Hi Keith, Le 06/04/2013 01:30, Keith Curtis a écrit : Hi all; I've written a proposal for a new experimental UI for LibreOffice Writer: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu That proposal is light years away from being a UX design proposal. Really. Just compare it with : -

Re: [libreoffice-design] Template Manager - Design issues

2013-04-12 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 11/04/2013 16:49, Stefan Knorr a écrit : Hi Rafael, [...] * No confirmation shown for Set as default (add some sort of tick or star?) +1 and in a future release, maybe add something to easily list all default templates. Ex : a new tab that just dynamically list the 4

Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2

2013-10-25 Thread Michel Renon
is LibreOfficeOnLine ? it would have been one answer). Now back to my silence for a long time. Regards, Michel Renon [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2013-July/002218.html

Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2

2013-12-05 Thread Michel Renon
I like very much). Comments inline. Le Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:37:03 +0200, Michel Renon michel.re...@free.fr a écrit : [...] First, I just want to say that what happens for the start center is a huge fiasco for LibreOffice. It clearly shows that there is no design process : - a subject is thrown

Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2

2013-12-05 Thread Michel Renon
Le 27/10/2013 16:43, Cor Nouws a écrit : Mirek M. wrote (27-10-13 02:04) Hi Michel, This is a meritocracy -- if you're not happy with something, you're welcome to swoop in and change it. :) (Of course, the community also has to accept those changes.) The problem is that a process is started,

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Start Center Niggles

2013-12-05 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 04/12/2013 10:03, Mirek M. a écrit : 2013/12/4 Jan Holesovsky ke...@collabora.com Hi Mirek, Mirek M. píše v Čt 28. 11. 2013 v 22:01 +0100: Please wait with the text until after this week's IRC chat, where we should finally reach consensus on all the controversial topics --

Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2

2013-12-12 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 06/12/2013 19:39, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello Michel, [...] Indeed. I find you quite shy in fact, and I'm serious. To me it does not look like you were ignored, rather that no one knows about it. Which is a problem since the start. I wouldn't say I'm shy, I'm just polite and I

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

2015-02-01 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 29/01/2015 17:06, Michael Meeks a écrit : [...] * GSoC (Cedric) + We need to have new ideas added to the wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas + sooner the better etc. preferably before FOSDEM: today / tomorrow. here are some

Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving Impress' UX

2015-06-12 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 11/06/2015 16:59, Joel Madero a écrit : On 06/10/2015 11:18 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: [...] Likely when the document is fully finished, it would be published to the wiki, similar to how we are doing with the HIG. And you will lost the complete history of the document. That is a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving Impress' UX

2015-06-11 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 10/06/2015 22:39, Jay Philips a écrit : Hi JBF, On 06/10/2015 11:46 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi, I am interested but I refuse to use Google Docs to contribute to LibreOffice project. So, no input from me. You can download the current version of the document below and make

Re: [libreoffice-design] Mime Type Icons Redesign Proposal

2015-11-06 Thread Michel RENON
Hi Paulo, Le 06/11/2015 11:06, Paulo José Amaro a écrit : Hi everyone, Some years ago (2011) I did help the redesign of the mime type icons, just adding some effects to the original ones created mainly by Christoph Noack. Since then I've been away from the LibreOffice design team, but today I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Improving printing UX

2015-07-09 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 09/07/2015 00:44, Jay Philips a écrit : Hey Katarina and all, Not sure if this is 100% relevant, but was something i was thinking about last week. I've been wondering why we dont rely on the OS's print dialog rather than LO's internal one. It was something that came to mind as Heiko

Re: [libreoffice-design] "eat our own dog food"

2015-12-04 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 04/12/2015 02:03, Heiko Tietze a écrit : On Friday 04 December 2015 00:32:29 Michel RENON wrote: So why not create mockups with LO Draw ? Nothing against dog food, and of course Draw is a useful tool. But to adopt a paintting tool for mockups is like writing code with a text processor

[libreoffice-design] Feedback for next hangouts

2015-12-03 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, I'll try to join next hangouts, but I wanted to send some feedback before. After reading gdocs about current subjects (table styles and area tab), I have the following suggestion : - start by creating use cases, for each of 3 personnas (Benjamin, Eve, Adrian). Currently, there are no

[libreoffice-design] "eat our own dog food"

2015-12-03 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Another feedback : do LO designers really use LibreOffice every day ? I can tell you it really changes the way you consider software design, specially when bugs/bad design prevent you from doing your paid work, and your boss becomes angry... Look at when one KDE dev (David Faure) just

[libreoffice-design] Not available for hangout

2015-12-11 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, I can't participate to today's hangout : I'm currently teaching Python ;-) I'll be available for next week. Cheers, Michel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

[libreoffice-design] Proposal for Impress master panel

2016-01-15 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Following my recent proposal about Impress buttons, I just created a proposal for the master panel : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr/Impress51_master_panel Feedback welcome, Cheers, Michel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-15 Thread Michel RENON
Le 14/01/2016 18:35, Heiko Tietze a écrit : On Thursday, 14 January 2016 11:32:59 CET Michel RENON wrote: You said very important things ! That's the core problem : currently, there is no user feedback. The design team is very motivated to create good UI, but we (as I participated

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-15 Thread Michel RENON
Le 15/01/2016 13:14, Heiko Tietze a écrit : On Friday, 15 January 2016 11:49:26 CET Michel RENON wrote: Please note that I was talking about "use cases, prototypes, user testing and iterate", not surveys. That's my daily business too. But for LibO, and any other open source applic

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-14 Thread Michel RENON
Le 13/01/2016 14:35, V Stuart Foote a écrit : [...] When refactored it was provided with a simple View menu toggle "Modes Tab Bar" so "power users", or the intransigent, can enable or disable it as desired--but no longer consuming the vertical space by default. Reasonable UI and UX--nothing is

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-14 Thread Michel RENON
Le 14/01/2016 10:48, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 14/01/16 10:20, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: > If you are ok with that, I'll prepare a patch to show the tab bar by default. Sorry, it's not "me" being OK with the solution, "users" should be OK with the solution (and users have not been asked at all:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-14 Thread Michel RENON
Le 14/01/2016 10:59, Sophie a écrit : Le 14/01/2016 10:48, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > On 14/01/16 10:20, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: > >> If you are ok with that, I'll prepare a patch to show the tab bar by default. > > Sorry, it's not "me" being OK with the solution, "users" should be OK > with the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-14 Thread Michel Renon
Le 13/01/2016 14:35, V Stuart Foote a écrit : [...] When refactored it was provided with a simple View menu toggle "Modes Tab Bar" so "power users", or the intransigent, can enable or disable it as desired--but no longer consuming the vertical space by default. Reasonable UI and UX--nothing is

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-14 Thread Michel RENON
Le 14/01/2016 15:26, V Stuart Foote a écrit : Michel RENON-2 wrote ... [resent to the ml] Currently, some design changes are merged asap in master, just because the code is ok. Then during alpha or beta, some user feedback is coming, but it's already too late to make changes in code... Why

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Impress Mode Toolbar

2016-01-22 Thread Michel RENON
Hi, Le 15/01/2016 19:28, Pedro Rosmaninho a écrit : Michel, you can't complain that people are using links not posted in a tdf/libreoffice website and then talk about feedback in a blog of someone else. Why didn't that person provide feedback to the design mailing list for example? It's not