This look would suit a web app BUT not a fully featured office suite. Not every program has to cut out as much interface as Google Chrome does, especially when there are hundreds of functions that need to be accessed.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Christopher Lee <[email protected]>wrote: > Please bear with me if this isn't how we post to this mailing list-- I'll > admit it's my first time contributing. > > Recently, I was looking at two mockups posted to OMGUbuntu and WebUpd8 > regarding LibreOffice's design. One was for a Ribbon style, the other for > a > sidebar design. > > Personally, I couldn't get behind the sidebar design. When I used KOffice, > I found it was eating up a lot of screen real-estate, and especially by > splitting half the UI elements between the sidebar and the top bar, negated > many advantages of Fitt's Law by requiring I track multiple active zones. > > I cobbled together a very basic mockup of a streamlined interface using the > web demo of Balsamic-- I don't have resources to go much further. But if > it's actually interesting to anyone, please let me know. > > Link below: > > > https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1dv3FTikP46Qr8NpnJ4ukGLT15Ajgv--rf4sEWH9oilY/edit?hl=en_US > > -- > Christopher Lee > Executive Director > Champion Debate Camp > Co-Captain > Thomas Jefferson Policy Debate Team > > --The Gunboat Debater-- > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > 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 > > -- Sean White, I've Seen the Cow Level -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
