I just saw that mock-up Daniel. And I think it looks amazing. The concept is appropriately conveyed. If something like that would come to fruition Libre Office would gain an amazing look. And with all the great UI and design concepts that are appearing in open-source software (Elementary, Gnome, Unity finally looks and works good, Cinnamon and even KDE with their Visual Design Group) it would be the perfect opportunity for LO to obtain an UI of its own instead of the old Open Office one that make it become labeled as the Office 2003 wannabe.
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Hulse <[email protected]>wrote: > Overlord, I take it you're a power user. Customization is fun, and can be > valuable in creating an efficient work-flow in specialized cases. That > being > said, I don't think it's reasonable to expect most users to have to > customize their software. Instead, designers need make interfaces that > optimize such things as: ease-of-use, ease-of-learning, efficiency, number > of features, and user control for the vast amount of users. This is why > duplicate controls are bad, because they make the software harder to learn > and understand. As a result, we need to be making decisions about which UI > elements are available by default, and which are hidden. > > I agree, however, that the sidebar needs to change, and we can learn from > the mock-up you linked. Did you see the rough mock-up I posted earlier? > Here it is. <http://imgur.com/a/suDhH> It's not pretty, but I think it > could serve as an inspiration for what a good LibreOffice UI could look > like. > > Daniel. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Sidebar-Problem-tp4094331p4105027.html > Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
