On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I resurrected an old whiteboard with a similar topic: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Style_management . > Please tweak the scope according to what you would like to work on and add > your proposal. > We'll talk about the proposals next Saturday at 16:00 UTC on our weekly > IRC chat [1] and try to agree on a tentative design. Do you think you could > join us? If it's not a good time, we can reschedule. >
Hi Mirek, I added a brief description of my proposal there and I plan to join you on IRC tonight. > To get familiar with the LibO code, you could try working on our proposed > EasyHack regarding styles : > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62081 . Ask Kendy to add the > code pointers for that. (I'm ccing him on this message.) > The code pointer sure help a lot! I'll probably want to use the same class for the character style selector. Best -- Aurélien Naldi On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aurélien, > Sorry for the late response. > > I agree that the current Style workflow isn't as simple or efficient as it > could be. > > I resurrected an old whiteboard with a similar topic: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Style_management . > Please tweak the scope according to what you would like to work on and add > your proposal. > We'll talk about the proposals next Saturday at 16:00 UTC on our weekly > IRC chat [1] and try to agree on a tentative design. Do you think you could > join us? If it's not a good time, we can reschedule. > > To get familiar with the LibO code, you could try working on our proposed > EasyHack regarding styles : > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62081 . Ask Kendy to add the > code pointers for that. (I'm ccing him on this message.) > > I'm really excited to have you onboard! :) > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Aurélien Naldi > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been an irregular user of LibreOffice since the old staroffice >> days, >> but also a LaTeX user for longer texts. I would like to share some ideas >> on >> realistic improvements for people who want to use styles exclusively. >> >> My main gripe with the current GUI is that everything encourages ad-hoc >> formatting instead of reusing styling. I feel that the use of style should >> not require using the crowded style dialogs more than ad-hoc formatting. >> To >> address this, I propose two main changes: a "style toolbar" to replace the >> formatting toolbar, and a redesign of the stylist to let us edit common >> properties from the stylist directly (along with some other changes). Some >> of the proposed things may not be easy to implement now, but I feel that a >> partial implementation would not be problematic and would greatly improve >> my workflow in LibreOffice. >> >> I'm also a newcomer to this mailing list or to design work, thus let me >> know if I'm doing this wrong! >> Should I open an enhancement request instead of (or in addition to) using >> the mailing list? >> >> You can find a mockup here: >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2vqqmlj1k4msjx/LO_wireframe.pdf< >> https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fp2vqqmlj1k4msjx%2FLO_wireframe.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUGdCeKHQ5g_FaNvqyCuIvAUSXEw >> > >> >> Excuse my poor artistic skills! >> >> PS: I'm willing to contribute code if there is interest in this kind of >> changes, but would need some guidance. >> >> >> Best. >> >> -- >> Aurélien Naldi >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe 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 >> > > [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings > -- Aurélien Naldi -- To unsubscribe 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
