Hi, my name is Fernando Andrade, and i have an idea for the graphical interface of Libre Office. It is a little bit based on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, minimalistic and functional but a lot different of the actual LO interface. Microsoft made a step in the right direction in 2007 when they introduced in the market the new interface, although many people didn't like it nowadays people cant use other interface, because the MS Office interface have eye-candy and is useful and productive.
Now it is time to LO do the changes that will make the difference, i picked the concept of a Dock, introduced by Steve Jobs on NextStep, and aplied it to the toolbars. Instead of ugly toolbars or the tabs thing of MS Office, a dock would work nice. But how do i apply a fancy dock like docky on the toolbars, it just don't make sense. Well its just the dock concept, the thing i call docklet. It works like a dock in the way that we can drag and drop icons to add functionalities that we need, or drag and drop to remove the ones we don't need. when clicked a drop down menu appears with the info and the options that we have. As an example the character related info(Bolted, Italic, Underlined, font, size, color, highlight, etc..) in only a small and beutiful menu, with a beautiful icon. [image: rffff.bmp] In the picture you can see what i mean, its just the concept of some thing new. the menu can be on a global menu like he ones on MacOS or Ubuntu, on windows it could show on top of the docklet. If you like this concept please replay to me, i have more idieas and you would need the full concept, this is just a raw draw made directly from my brain to the file via ms paint... Thank you for your time; Open regards; Fernando Andrade -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted