On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all > > I took some time to mock-up how Writer could look. > > 1. Without less used icons and without the separator color > ========================================== > I locked the two toolbars to get rid of the grabbing area and removed the > color of all vertical separators, except the one in the lower right corner, > to separate the zoom amount from the horizontal zoom slider. > > Image: http://ubuntuone.com/56vCLYWwuluBmdoa7Mi7Vz > > Buttons removed: > * 'Document as E-mail' button > * 'Edit File' button > * 'Page Preview' button > * 'Spelling and Grammar' button > * 'Show Draw Functions' > * 'Navigator' > * 'Gallery' > * 'Data Sources' > * 'LibreOffice Help' > * 'Styles and Formatting' > > > 2. Reordered toolbar icons > ====================== > To save place and re-balance the UI I moved the less used 'Apply Style' > drop-down menu to the upper right. > > Image: http://ubuntuone.com/3ydcBWGX78PFF30OH6KFLJ > > I already like the result and would be happy if LO would ship with such > default toolbars in Writer. All suggested changes - except the removed > color of the vertical separators - are done by simple LO toolbar > manipulations. > > The toolbars don't miss IMHO anything, but are short enough to be always > displayed - even on a small netbook screen (would need to be checked). The > upper toolbar, left side - btw the most valuable place in every program - > has the basic file and print stuff there, the rest of the upper toolbar > contains less used actions. > The lower toolbar contains all the needed day-to-day buttons - but not much > clutter. > > But there is still space for improvements... > > > 3. Further reordered + more drop-downs + other UI elements removed > =================================================== > For the third try I changed the UI (and therefore the UX too) more > drastically, without reinventing Writer. > > Image: http://ubuntuone.com/3Q9Nve4ZCHUMiSL0B8OLue > > Cleaned-up, reordered or removed UI elements: > * The bottom toolbar got cleaned-up > * I removed the buttons beneath the scrollbar > * The 'Table' button moved to the lower toolbar > * The 'Nonprinting Character' button moved to the lower toolbar > * The less used text formatting options got collapsed into a drop-down > * The list buttons got collapsed into a drop-down > * Added more space between the text formatting and the list drop-down > button > > Compare the image with the current default UI... I think my last mock-up is > much better. > It is more clean, has less lines, still looks like LibreOffice, but is much > more easily to catch with the eyes. All day-to-day tasks can be found in > the lower - better targetable - toolbar. Plus a lot of clutter has been > reduced. > > The toolbar at the bottom of Writer looks cleaner - an average user will > have no problem to recognize every displayed information. > > > > That's it for now > > Kind Regards > Thibaut > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
