Hi Rosana, hi all, I'm glad to see this addressed ....
Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 19:09 +0200 schrieb rosana ardila biela - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany: > Hi Jean Baptiste, > > As you can see [1] your issue 110826 is being addressed and the icon on > the start center will be changed. > The idea behind two identical icons was to reduce the amount of > different elements in the start center. As both icons have the function > of opening a folder they looked the same, but as you can see Stella took > ownership of the issue and this will be changed. <irony> Since both icons do open a dialog, we should show a dialog in the icon. Even better, we can harmonize all function symbols which lead to an modal dialog. Then we would have only one icon for all menu entries.</irony> I know that my words above tend to be a bit mean, but the rationale you cited to (whoever this made) is weird. Technically speaking, the template files shown in the dialog might be located in a folder, but the real action is to create a new document based on a template. Otherwise the New --> Templates and Documents should have moved to Open - Whatever (as I already said in another thread). If the same icons would have been kept, the established concept of icons (and their metaphors) and unique functions would have been messed up. I'm still curious how this decision was made at all ... but I'm pleased to see that you refer to an improved collaboration with the UX team. At least, we refer to major shortcomings since September last year. [...] Cheers, Christoph > On 04/12/10 04:09 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As you perhaps know already, there is some effervescence in the > > francophone NLC about the new version 3.2.1. > > The problem is about the replacement of the splash-screen chosen by the > > Community, the look and the usability of the new StartCenter, and the > > method to do the changes. > > > > There is two kinds of problem : > > > > - *theses changes break our processes, mainly our QA process*. Indeed > > OOo 3.2.1 is a bugfix and these changes do not fix any bug, so they have > > nothing to do in a bugfix. Confidence in the quality assurance rests, to > > a large extent, on the absolute respect of the procedures. The break of > > our processes is then a major fail and a very bad message sent to the > > Community. > > > > - *the new StartCenter is mainly unusable* due to the too small > > difference between ODF icons, the four small icons seem which seem > > grayed, "open file" and "template" actions which have the same icon (a > > closed folder !). Most of those to whom I showed the new StartCenter > > have said that it is a regression. If we consider the StarCenter as the > > gateway to OpenOffice.org, so it does not encourage the user to enter. > > > > I do not like to write that but, in its current state, I do not know how > > I could validate a francophone version of OOo 3.2.1. :-( > > > > If we do not want to discourage the Community it is essential that the > > main role of the Community shouldn't be only to accept and promote the > > decisions taken by Hambourg. Remember, without its Community, > > OpenOffice.org would not have a market share of ~20% in Europe. > > So we should work *together* to do a better version 3.2.1. > > > > Best regards. > > JBF > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
