2012/5/6 Stefan Knorr (Astron) <[email protected]> > Hello Mirek, > > great effort to do that! It seems to be based on Android's UI design > principles... amiright? >
They weren't really based on any principles. Though I've drawn inspiration from some other companies' design principles, I wanted to craft my own. > > I'd like to comment on the goal of being "focused": > "Focus on doing ONE thing well. Writer is for producing great-looking > documents, Impress for supplementing a great speech, Calc for > interpreting data. Additional features, like HTML controls for Writer, > should be available to the user as extensions, not shipped with the > product. Necessary features that aren't related to what the user is > doing (e.g. "Quit", "Recent documents", "New file" in Writer) should > be tucked away." > > While this is a laudable goal for some software, it's probably not a > goal that's too helpful for LibO which currently is more of a jack of > all trades and which has its strengths in being that. > Even an advanced office suite needs to be focused. As I specified, I see Writer as a tool to create great-looking documents. That doesn't mean it can't export to HTML -- of course it can. An HTML document is just as valuable as an ODT document. What it does mean, though, is that Writer's workflow needs to be concentrated at creating a great-looking document. All the tools within Writer should help the user do that. If the user wants to create a website with Writer (which I wouldn't recommend, as there are better tools for that), he can download an extension to help him accomplish that. For office productivity software, one of the important things are > comparison tables. In these tables, things like "exports to HTML," > "support format XYZ," "can create organigrammes" all get you "points." > So, that's where this project comes from: trying to match MSO in a > comparison table + a little authentic innovation. > I guess we have very different ideas about what LibreOffice should be. I'd like LibreOffice to stand its own, have value not as a Microsoft alternative but as a powerful suite of applications that each has its specific goal and meaning. File format support is important, I agree, but it has no influence on how a piece of software is designed. Obviously, LibO has a number of rough areas, the further out you get, > the rougher it is. Obviously, it should be more focused, for instance, > there's no excuse to ship a scanner module (that's only usable from > inside one of the applications anyway), because MS doesn't do that > either. > Again, I'd prefer to judge LibreOffice on its own rather than compared to MS Office. The scanner module could actually be very useful if done correctly, perhaps if included as a tab under the Insert image dialog. > Then, you have your example of Form Controls – I _guess_ these are > most often used for writing macros for LibreOffice, not for exporting > to HTML. > -- 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
