Hi, I have made some mockup to show how different shadows look alike: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Docshadows.png Which looks best?
With startup style shadow: http://ubuntuone.com/p/S53/ Hillar 2011/3/4 Daniel Merker <daniel.mer...@wayne.edu> > Hi, > > Just a thought. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the background be the > primary color of that application. For example, the Writer would have a blue > tinted background with a shadow (I like the shadow on all sides), and > Impress would have an organge tinted background with the same shadow around > the slide. This should help tie in the color theme and help build on a > general motif. > > -Daniel Merker > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sébastien Le Ray [mailto:sebast...@orniz.org] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:01 PM > To: design@libreoffice.org > Cc: jaronba...@gmail.com; Andrew > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] fdo#31251 - > Improve default page layout > > Le Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:44:21 -0500, > Jaron Kuppers <jaronba...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > I like both ideas but lean towards Andrews suggestion. > > > > I would like to instead propose a different approach but perhaps from > > a coding perspective it would not be an "easy hack." There was > > discussion over the years on the OOo list about changing the > > background from the dull gray to something more upbeat. Perhaps the > > 'shadow' could be integrated into a new customization feature that > > allows the user to change the background and the shadow. > > Unfortunately, I can't recall how difficult this is... (I seem to > > recall some large problem in the code that made this difficult, but it > > may have been an issue). > > > > Cheers, > > Jaron > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Andrew <rugby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 04/03/11 07:42, Sébastien Le Ray wrote: > > > > Le Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:35:11 +0100, Christoph Noack > > > > <christ...@dogmatux.com> a écrit : > > > > > > > >> Hi Sébastien, hi all! > > > >> > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > >> Am Donnerstag, den 03.03.2011, 14:16 +0100 schrieb Sébastien Le > > > >> Ray: > > > >>> Le Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:59:19 +0000, Michael Meeks > > > >>> <michael.me...@novell.com> a écrit : > > > >>> > > > > [...] > > > >> > > > >> Although I didn't see it yet, thanks for your work - I'm really > > > >> looking forward. > > > > > > > > You can find a screenshot on > > > > http://misc.orniz.org/libreoffice/lo-shadow.png book mode is also > > > > handled nicely... > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > >> However, I'd like to provide some pointers to the Notes stuff - > > > >> it's really worth spending some time digging through some of the > > > >> descriptions (in my point-of-view). I think this is better than > > > >> pre-process most of the stuff, since I'm unaware of your likings > > > >> :-) > > > >> > > > >> The notes main wiki page (Notes2 because of the CWS that time): > > > >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2 > > > >> > > > >> Here are the links to the detailed designs that had (sometimes) > > > >> to be adapted due to technical constraints nobody spent the time > > > >> for: > > > >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2#Status_and_Propos > > > >> als > > > >> > > > >> And once finished with the default stuff, we have lots of further > > > >> ideas: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2_OtherIdeas > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Personally, I've already spend over one year with the Notes > > > >> project being the UX representative, so I'd like to work with you > > > >> on that - if you like :-) > > > > > > > > I'll be pleased to :) It'd be nice to have a "UI tasks" on > > > > libreoffice wiki presenting all tasks that are ready on a Design > > > > point of view but that have not yet been implemented. > > > > There is a lot of stuff on the Note2 wiki page, could you give > > > > priorities on various items? > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > >> > > > >> If you are generally interested in working on Usability / Visual > > > >> Design topics (of course, from the developer's point-of-view - > > > >> and we really need some understanding and support here), feel > > > >> invited to subscribe to the Design Team mailing list - some more > > > >> information can be found here: > > > >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design > > > > > > > > Subscribed yesterday :-) > > > > It seems that you've been busy with more "marketting" stuff that > > > > UI design lately to cover the launch of LO, FOSDEM and funraising > > > > > > > > Waiting for you priorities & mockups on notes work :-) > > > > > > > > Sébastien > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All and Sebastien :) > > > > > > Regarding that patch, I think that what we have in that screenshot > > > is a definite improvement, but I feel we could do better, and > > > hopefully without a lot more work. > > > > > > If you look at the mockup I attached to the bug report, I feel this > > > looks a lot more modern and professional. > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=39920 > > Pretty interesting... I first implemented the "4 borders" shadow but every > people I show it said "it's strange, the shadow should be only under two > borders". > > > > > > > I feel if instead of having that shadow aligned to the bottom left, > > > instead it is centred on the page, and we have a slightly larger > > > blur radius we can make it look a lot better. > > > > > > Is this just me, or do other think this as well? > > > > > Now that the code is present, we can use almost any image. Shadow is > divided in 4 parts: top right, right, bottom right, bottom, bottom left. If > you can provide other images I could integrate them (those ones where more > "proof of concept" ones. > > > > > -- > > > Andrew > > > Regards > > Sebastien > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List > archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
