Hi Andre, Thanks for the screenshots.
Our ux team is working on the detail design of the layout. We will give a clear indication of the gradient color and the icon layout. We will send out one by one these days. 2013/2/28 Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> > On 25.02.2013 11:21, Andre Fischer wrote: > > Am 25.02.2013 08:03, schrieb Xin Li: > >> Hi Ariel, > >> > >> Thanks for your concern about the issue of color customization. I think > we > >> need to **discuss this issue as two parts: > >> > >> 1. Do we need to create the new look and feel for AOO? > >> We always say that the current look and feel for AOO is out of style. > We > >> know that AOO just use the system color by default. But if we want AOO > >> looks more modern and fashion, we need to do some change, we need to > have > >> new design for default look and feel. You can see that most of the PC > >> software have their own default look and feel, like: MSO, Photoshop, > Adobe > >> Illustrator and so on. I think if the default visual style of software > is > >> good, the requirements of change color will be smaller. > >> > >> 2.User also can change to other colors if we have default new look and > feel. > >> We create new look and feel does not mean that we forbid user change > color. > >> User can also change color if they don't like the default look and feel. > >> And I think the reasonable way is user can change the whole interface > with > >> sidebar to other colors. > > I will try this week to find some time to play with the colors. On > > Windows we are not so far away from the system colors, anyway. Maybe it > > is good enough to use the cleaner look (not so many lines and boxes and > > title bars as the old (Impress) taskpanel) together with the system > > colors. Besides, the system colors still offer some choice. And we can > > modify them a little bit like in the Impress slide sorter. Its selection > > color is based on the system selection color but is made a little > > brighter (I think). There are a lot of knobs to turn. Lets see what I > > can do. > > I have uploaded three screenshots (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac) for a slightly > modified color scheme. Colors are based on system colors as provided by > the StyleSettings class. I used the result of GetDialogColor() as base > for most background colors. Panel, deck and tab bar use it unmodified. > For the panel title bar I use a second color that is the dialog color > with a modified luminance (-15). That same darker color is also used for > the border around the deck. The border of tab buttons uses > GetActiveBorderColor(). > > Please have a look: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar#Status > > I have not yet checked in my changes but will do if anybody is interested. > > -Andre > > > > > -Andre > > > >> Thanks. > >> > >> 2013/2/21 Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> > >> > >>> Hi Xin Li, > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0800, Xin Li wrote: > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for your votes and your feedback. > >>>> > >>>> I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result > is : > >>>> A1:8 A2:7 A3:6 > >>>> B1:8 B2:8 B3:10 > >>>> C1:3 C2:2 C3:5 > >>>> > >>>> For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple > line > >>>> separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency > would > >>> be > >>>> best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use > separators > >>>> between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. > >>>> > >>>> For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I > would > >>>> like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already > >>> relate > >>>> to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed > before, > >>>> the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We > >>>> should do some light-weight change in AOO. > >>> If you see something gray in the user interface, it is because your > >>> system uses that color for painting that particular object. If a user > >>> doesn't like gray, s/he has to simply switch the desktop theme. > >>> > >>> Moving away from the system's style settings only renders the sidebar > as > >>> something that does not "fit" with the rest of the application/desktop: > >>> http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/sidebar/ > >>> > >>> These screen shots are from different GTK themes, the sidebar is > >>> obviously not following the rest of the application (the Navigator is > >>> side-by-side to show this fact). > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> -- > >>> Ariel Constenla-Haile > >>> La Plata, Argentina > >>> > >> > > -- Best regards, Xin Li 李欣 UX designer
