KG01 - see comments inline. 

On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Am 21.02.2013 16:26, schrieb Regina Henschel:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Xin Li schrieb:
>> [..]
>>> So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed
>>> before.I use a light grey on the side bar and use a gradient for the
>>> section title.
>>> 
>>> And I also align the same light grey to slide thumbnail panel background in
>>> Presentation. Because the content area on the center should have the
>>> highest priority, the rest elements should have lower priorities, and items
>>> with the same priority should be treated with the same way.
>>> 
>>> I have added the latest design(option10) to AOO UX wiki page. Please see
>>> the latest design by the link:
>>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Welcome to share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks.
>>> 
>> 
>> Can you make a little change and draw the color gradient of the subtitles 
>> the other way round: light color at the top edge and darker color at the 
>> bottom edge? And put the pictures side by side to allow to compare them?
> 
> I don“t think that would work.  The current orientation of the gradient is 
> chosen so that the title bar blends into the panel so that the user can 
> recognize both to belong together.  Inverting the gradient would work only 
> when we make the background of the panel dark.
> 
KG01 - exactly, the goal is to differentiate the section titles from each other 
while reinforcing the association between section header and it's content. Who 
said design was easy :) other solutions could be explored if the gradient is 
not ideal. 

>> 
>> Background for the request: When ever I see such gradient in an UI, it 
>> assumes, that the light comes from left-top, so that the top and the left 
>> parts of the elements are lighter then the right and bottom parts.
> 
> AOO is not a physics simulation.
> 
> -Andre
> 

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