Hi Ben, all, I always get excited when there's discussion about a dashboard :P
Ben, thank you for sharing your design with us! Having the dashboard in HTML is a great idea: just change the CSS and you can get a completely different layout. Plus, the use of HTML and JS could work really well for attracting a broad range of contributors/developers, as you mentioned. There would probably be a lot of XML involved too (e.g. recent file lists). There would also probably be security considerations with JS that might complicate the implementation of this idea - but the potential is huge. Here's a thought that got me thinking about your proposal: it might seem odd to users that they would be able to customize the dashboard so heavily, but not the rest of OOo (and I've seen many suggestions by users saying that OOo should be skinnable). Although this matter is well beyond the scope of the dashboard (and I think that a customizable dashboard is a wonderful idea), it does make me wonder - what if OOo (or at least, some parts of it) could be skinned with CSS (a crazy idea, I know...)? I'll add some more comments on your proposal later - I'm short on time these days, but with a juicy topic (and a juicy mockup) like this I just couldn't resist :) Regards, Ivan. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 03.06.2009 03:57, Benjamin Horst a écrit : >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been working on the Dashboard concept some more and have the >> following semi-functional mockup to share. This would appear in the >> OOo application window where the start center now appears. >> >> http://www.laboratory9.com/openoffice/oo_sample.php > > It looks very interesting. I suggest to add direct access to some help > documentation such as FAQ, wiki, "getting started in 3 pages" for each > module (perhaps 3 pages is to long) and complete guide if available. > > Another point : recent documents should show full names, in order to not > have to use mouse to get tooltip with the full filename. > > Regards > JBF > > -- > Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
