Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Keith Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > > Notice that the advantages listed above don't require a ribbon-like UI > and > > can be accomplished using toolbars while retaining all of the advantages > of > > LibreOffice's current UI. Focusing on toolbars also allows a smoother > > change and less development effort. The proposed EasyHacks are a first > > step. > > > > You could quickly prototype any kind of toolbar or ribbon in Python. > > Do you have a better toolbar design? I'd update my wiki page with anything > radically better. For this task, I suggest you not worry about what is > doable and instead what you want. Alright, sure. (I just don't want you to get your hopes up that this will ever be implemented in LibreOffice. As I was told by several LibO devs, the chances for LibO changing toolkits is basically zero to none.) If you need a quality mockup to work from, spiceofdesign made an excellent one on deviantart: http://spiceofdesign.deviantart.com/art/Writer-Concept-351501580?q=gallery%3Aspiceofdesign&qo=2. It's somewhat similar to my own vision for the UI, though I propose several changes: * Have the static toolbar on the same line as the contextual toolbar, as pictured on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Writer-appmenu1.png. This toolbar should only contain Undo, Redo, Save, and Tools items. It should not contain New, Open, Templates, Print, or Share, as those aren't relevant during editing. (In case this proves controversial, MS Office and iWork also hide these in order to keep a focused workflow.) * The mockups on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Toolbars#Mockupsdetail how the Tools menu could evolve. * Each toolbar should have a Hidden Items Menu (HIM) [1] containing the hidden commands of that toolbar (i.e. those set as "hidden" in "Customize..."). The dialog relevant to that toolbar should be among these commands, if it exists. * Dragging commands from the toolbar to the HIM should hide them. Doing the opposite should show them on the toolbar. * Pages should be selectable. [2] Selecting a page would trigger a toolbar with page-related commands. [3] [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62079 [2] https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60416 [3] https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61080 -- 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
