Hi all, just FYI, there were people some time ago that wanted to add a document background:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/DocumentBackground To me, the idea seems sensible, but just as Mirek said, just adding a document background doesn't make the application that much prettier. The thing that sticks out to me most in our Windows appearance is that we have glossy blue toolbars that clash with the Tango icons and also clash with the grey document border. Now, the glossy toolbars look "native," so I think that's not something that we want to change, actually. The Tango icons may not fit on Windows, but they are the best icons we have and I know at least some people think Galaxy is impractical, both because it stands so much for the Ooo era and also because they are incredibly bland. What might, read: might help, is increasing the icon size by default to "large" and reducing toolbar elements, so we can fit all necessary toolbars in one row on the average screen [1]. What is indeed quick to fix is the document background. Applying the same sickly hue of blue that the toolbar backgrounds currently use, looks actually quite okay. Try setting the document background to RGB(221,227,243), for instance. Standing between the toolbars and the document there are still the rulers, and those are really ugly right now. However, we should _not_ remove them by default if we're also removing the statusbar [2], so what I would propose is to add some sort of gradient to the rulers such that the connect the chrome to the document background (maybe even the document itself). [1] A list of stuff we can probably remove from the standard toolbar: * Send as email (do people use that? for me, it doesn't play a role, because I usually want to check that I've done everything looks okay in an exported document.) * Print preview (I don't think that many people use it, ) * AutoSpellcheck (the only people who I've seen turn that off are people that are presenting stuff on OHP, but use a text document for that purpose; another use case would be making screenshots of eg diagrammes that you could add to another document later – we should encourage neither use case) * Format Paintbrush (counters our goal to encourage using styles) * Add Hyperlink (is usually added automatically) * Gallery (completely useless right now) * Non-printing characters (users set that once, never use it again) * Data sources (probably used rather seldomly) * Help (?? there's a menu for that ) [2] I still much prefer removing the status bar over removing the rulers. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
