I am also +1ing the gallery idea, but eill we host it on the wiki or on a different site??
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Scott Pledger <scottpledger2...@gmail.com>wrote: > +1 on the gallery concept. > > I am more than willing to set it up and maintain it with the different UI > reworks posted here and I think we can even come up with some templates to > add it to the wiki's whiteboards. What do you think? > > I fully agree with the gallery idea, this is the best solution, because >> with >> that actually can see what is best, but as it is debated whether Microsoft >> is losing customers, and he knows how they will be returned because there >> designers decide how the program looks, rather than developers, who are >> paid >> to do as they are told, they do not care if toolbar does not fit the >> windows, MS is extra just because, and here the main problem is just that, >> so much debate about whether this bar that stands out from the system. >> And to ask customers taht say what it is better, They do not care if >> ribbon >> deviate from the system, it is important that the program is good and >> special for us because nobody will be offended if on the new version >> ubuntu >> found a single program that sow their face with opportunities. After all, >> all is a habit. >> >> I fully agree with the gallery idea. >> >> 2011/6/20 Björn Balazs<b...@lazs.de> >> >> Hi all, >>> >>> I am a little unsatisfied with the amount of individual threads going >>> into >>> the direction of: "We need a new interface for LibreOffice - and it needs >>> to >>> look linke this...". >>> >>> This is a Free Software Project. As a design team, we will not need to >>> convince ourselves about this need to change the GUI (we all agree on >>> that), >>> we will need to convince the people actually doing (and financing) it - >>> the >>> developers and the companies paying them. >>> >>> We will obviously not be able to do this by starting the same discussion >>> all >>> over and over again (e.g. Ribbon discussion). To convince the sponsors of >>> new >>> software code, we should never argue about personal opinions. A conflict >>> in >>> personal opinion is not solvable. And developers and managers of >>> sponsoring >>> companies willl have personal opinions as well. These kind of conflicts >>> will >>> predicitably end with those parts of the suggestions beeing realised that >>> the >>> sponsors like. This again will not satisfy anyone in the end (not us, not >>> the >>> users and not the sponsors). >>> >>> So, how can we make this more productive? >>> >>> Ideas are good, visualisations are even better. So let us find a way to >>> not >>> comment on these, but to collect them with the goal of easy comparision >>> with >>> eachother. A gallary of ideas and visualisations of the future LibO. >>> >>> We should then try to extract the dimensions these ideas differ on. >>> Knowing >>> these we can then again use user-centric methodologies to have the users >>> decide about what they like. >>> >>> With this data we will have much less trouble to convince the >>> code-sponsors >>> to go into a certain direction. >>> >>> So - the main point I am argueing for is a gallery of interface ideas. >>> Easy >>> to compare and on one spot. What do you think about this? >>> >>> Best, >>> Björn >>> >>> -- >>> Voluntary Open Source Usability: http://www.OpenUsability.org >>> Commercial Open Source Usability: http://www.OpenSource-** >>> Usability-Labs.com <http://www.OpenSource-Usability-Labs.com> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >>> design+help@global.**libreoffice.org<design%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** >>> Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> >>> List archive: >>> http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/design/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/> >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > design+help@global.**libreoffice.org<design%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/design/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Sean White, I've Seen the Cow Level -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
