Hi Astron, On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Stefan Knorr (Astron) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mirek, Kendy > > > I visited Kendy yesterday, he showed me a build of LibreOffice with Aero > > glass menus, and he told me that it's possible to make a theme > specifically > > for Windows (or a specific version of Windows) -- we just need to design > it. > > I've taken a look at it, and right now, it seems, the menu text is > transparent ... but I believe that's trivial to fix. > I've done a "mockup" of what it would look like with black text: . > ? > (So, yeah, still not completely readable. MSO 2010 has a relatively > opque gradient coming up from the ribbon which makes that work: ) > > However, it is really bad timing now since a few days ago it turned > out that MS will be abandoning Aero with Windows 8 [4]. They even go > so far as to call it looking "dated and cheesy" (click through to the > MSDN source). > :) That's what I told Kendy. I have to agree with Microsoft, though -- Aero was a resource-hungry skeumorphic UI that was more about the show and less about the user (it makes content less readable and distracts the user with whatever is happening in the background). I have to say I love Metro's (and Android Holo's) "authentically digital" design. I've tried Windows 8 Release Preview, and they still use some > translucency effects on the desktop, but it's not nearly as pronounced > as it used to be in Vista and 7. Yet, all of the desktop somehow looks > wrong, like a step back into plastic XP land... Thus, I'm not > convinced that they really want to ship it as it is now. > > Now, how about we just use some gradient-from-the-bottom look, like MS > Office does: > > http://cdn.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Power-Word-Office-2010-Addin.jpg > ? > To be honest, I'd prefer a solid-color menu bar, but as both you and Kendy insist on using Aero glass in the menu bar and I could care less about Windows, how about something like this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Doze3.png ? -- 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
