Hi Eric,
eric.bachard wrote:
FYI, after what I have seen during GoOOCon (Prague), I decided to test
layoutdialogs cws on Mac OS X and so far it looks promising. (only
tested zoom and another dialog box though )
Good to hear, so it seems I have to take a look myself as well :-)
The other alternative I'm aware does only concern Mac OS X, using
libRenaissance ( automagic layouting on the fly, using .xml files
created from .src with Kohey python script). I'm in touch with Nicola
Pero, from GNUstep project for that.
I found it, going to take a look at it later, thanks for the hint.
See also
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chrome_Again
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/UI_Layout
Reading all that above, I got some questions :
What are the plans ? Who can contribute ? Reading Chrome Again wiki
page, the work is really advanced, but is it just a draft ?
I have to admit, I don't know ;-)
What I hear is, that many users and developers seem to be unsatisfied
with OOo's GUI respectively with it's progress, some even seem to be
disappointed with OOo 3 because of that. What I see is, that others
(XAML, XUL, ...) are in principal heading for a scalable approach (not
pixel but vector based, using e.g. cm or inch as the measure), noticing
all those high resolution / high pixel density displays, this obviously
makes sense. Not to forget, that there is a general trend, and I have to
admit, I personally like that, towards transparency and animations.
I think what I basically want to say is, that there is some pressure to
principally re-work OOo's GUI to stay attractive and to be future proof.
What I am currently doing is, to look around, to listen and to ask
questions what people think what needs to be done, and what they are
currently working on.
Last but not least, I know there is something in progress about more MVC
in OpenOffice.org, mainly in vcl, but I can't remember where it is for
now ( I'll try to retrieve it asap :-) )
I fear, that this more far away than we would like it to be ...
Regards,
Eric Bachard
Always a pleasure to talk to you
Kay
P.S. : the Mac OS X screenshots are outdated :-)
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