I am currently working on a new UI and will be posting it in the http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/MenuIdeas tomorrow or Monday. im still working on one little thing then I will post it. check on Monday for if I do not get that thing done I will post it by the night fall Ohio, United States. for the thing im working on can just as easily be explained but I would like to show you what im taling about instead.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Bernhard Dippold < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, all, > > Alex B schrieb: > > I just asked myself, if there are any plans for a new UI? >> > > In addition to Christoph's reply: > Many people are interested in improving the UI - your comment below > describes part of their work. > > > I saw >> several really good mockups over the past view months, but i found >> nothing tangible in the wiki. There are several small proposals and >> improvements wich could be get discarded if a new UI is implemented. >> > > But like Christoph mentioned: > A general UI overhaul will not only have advantages. > > Main point is: We need developers to work on such a major modification - > and they need lot of time and dedication to struggle their way through the > code. With a paid staff, this would probably work quite well, but based on > the volunteer status of our developers I would propose a different approach: > > 1) split the design mockups in bits and pieces (and find out that some of > these bits are part of several mockups) > > 2) define the improvements we would like to be implemented first. > In my eyes this is docking/undocking behavior for windows and toolbars > (including menus): With such a feature most of the different opinions on > context sensitive menus would be handled quite easily by extensions for > different target groups. > > 3) find developers to work on these features (as these are just single > areas, the coding effort should be much less than on a general new design). > > 4) ship LibreOffice with improved UI with (nearly) every new version - > leading to the general overhaul in quite the same time as a > one-step-solution (or even faster, if the other way would lack developers) > and allowing our present users to get accustomed to the improvements. > > 5) work on improving LibreOffice's theme handling and design extension > handling in a parallel action - this would allow to create different UIs for > different purposes, if someone would code such an extensions. > > >> So are there any designers/programmers out there actually working on >> a new UI? >> > > I already started with point 1 on a dedicated wiki page: > http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/Design/**UI_Elements<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/UI_Elements> > > Feel free to improve my example element ("vertical tabs") by pointing to > the different mockups containing such an element, adding an image or > including your comment - but you can add your proposals and ideas too! > > If you pr somebody else would volunteer to have an eye on the evolution of > this page and the action based on it, this would be great! > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > design+help@global.**libreoffice.org<design%[email protected]> > 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 [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
