Hi Daniel, hi all the UI guys ;-) Daniel, thanks for offering help ... I think this is a great chance for both the students and LibreOffice as well. From my personal point-of-view, it would be very interesting to hear a bit more "on list".
Oh, and the sender of this mail doesn't seem to be subscribed to the mailing list - so I had to moderate them. That is the reasons for: a) forwarding your mail to the new guys, and b) kindly asking them to subscribe. The mailing list links for subscriptions can be found here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design#Communication Being curious ... kind regards, Christoph Am Mittwoch, den 02.03.2011, 19:24 +0000 schrieb Daniel Merker: > Hi, > > I would definitely like to help! Could you email me more specifics at > [email protected]? > > -Daniel Merker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yu Liu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Sheng Liu; [email protected]; 曦 程 > Subject: [libreoffice-design] RE: Help Sought: LibreOffice UI Alternation > Experiement - Acadamic Project > > > Hi Bernhard, > > Thank you for your reply, although we didn't not think of checking the email > archive until recently. > > > I for one don't consider myself as "expert" in this field - especially > > > as contact for a university project - but perhaps one of the other > > team > > > members would be able and willing to serve as contact. > > By > "expert in the field", we were not referring to top-level researchers or > developers, we are just looking for someone to act the client role ("client" > is just a paperwork term, no obligation attached): as long as one has got a > few years of experience in the area of UI design, it's good enough. The > purpose of having such person supervising this academic project is for us to > have a relevant, informative feedback/second opinion, and for us to learn > from the interaction of this experience. We will appreciate the effort of > anyone who is willing to help us on this project. > > Currently we are > planning on making the renovation two stages: the first one is to create > side tool bar for better (wide) screen utilization (something like the one > shown on > http://pauloup.deviantart.com/art/LibreOffice-UI-Mock-up-light-1-193805631?q=gallery%3Apauloup%2F28216273&qo=3), > and the second to have some "smart" algorithm to put only tools relevant to > the user's current intention in that bar. However, due to that the project > has to finish in almost exactly one-year's time (from today), during which we > will be in our fourth-year study or on internship, we doubt that we will be > able to reach the second stage. But we will try. > > > This would allow us to review your changes / new UI and implement them > > > (or at least some of them) to the main repository, if you can license > > > them under LGPL 3+ and MPL. > > We will follow and use the LGPL3 and MPL licenses, and thank you for > mentioning them. > > Looking forward to your reply. > > Thanks > Xi, George, Kevin, Yu > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
