Hi Christoph, 2010/10/30 Christoph Noack <[email protected]>
> Hi Ivan, Mirek, all! > > I really would like to overcome my previous "telegram" style messages > and to focus on topics like that I'm very much interested in. Sadly, > time is still very limited, so (a bit late) a big thank you to all who > invest a lot of time to shape these ideas (some of these are great, e.g. > the "page is an object" idea). > > Back to the splash screen ... > > > Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 19:50 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: > > Hi Mirek, > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mirek M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen: > > > http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/. > > > > It's fantastic to see your creativity being unleashed here. I really > > hope we can see some of these ideas in LibreOffice in the near future. > > The start centre and splash screen are topics that I'm really > > interested in, especially since Christoph put forward a hybrid > > proposal on the OOo wiki page he just mentioned. > > Aehm, do you mean this one? > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:ChristophNoack/Drafts/WelcomeCenter_2010 I really like the way your Welcome Center is organized. It'd be nice to have all these non-editing windows have the same uniform chrome. > > > > > The Start Center would lose the standard chrome of LibO and stand as a > very > > > lightweight application that opens while LibO loads, removing the need > for a > > > splash screen. > > > For individual applications (where the Start Center is skipped over), > there > > > would be an undistracting notification that the app is opening. > > > > The *perceived* speed of startup is something that should really be > > considered by the designers here. > [...] > > > I wonder if a similar analysis could be done with LibreOffice to > > identify design strategies that enhance the user experience (felt > > experience) of LibreOffice's start up. > > Maybe serving as a starting point: There has been (much) work that has > been done within OOo already. There is a dedicated project for improving > the performance. For example, "we" (UX) did a survey to identify general > problems concerning speed. And Frank worked on something called "User > Experience Index" to rate "perceived" speed of the software. > > The project can be found here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Performance > > I have some ideas how this could be linked with automated testing to > check perceived speed/slowness ... but maybe later :-) > > > Mirek, you've put forward some > > great ideas and possible solutions, but I think we should analyse the > > problem in more depth first (if you have any data or did any research > > on this, please share it with us). > > Again, a starting point? Along with my "Welcome Center 2010" idea, there > has been some thinking on how the next StartCenter in OOo should be > revised. Frank (the same person, UX team) collected information on the > start-up process. (Oh, I see in the wiki page versioning that Mirek > already helped with that ... cool!) > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Projects/Start-up_process > > > So I wonder whether there is some interest to form some kind of interest > group or even a dedicated UX team. At least, there might be better > places than [tdf-discuss] ... or? > > Cheers, > Christoph > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: Email to > [email protected]<discuss%[email protected]> > Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived *** > > -- -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to [email protected] Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
