Hello Sirs, First of all, congratulations for building OO. I'm one of the software developers in our company and we use OO 1.1.x for several tasks, we also try to push it to marketing people and others in our company.
I recently installed 2.0 Beta and was really a bit shocked about the appearance, the menu and icon bar especially. The 1.1 design was really clear, very good for working because of its exact icons and so on. Now I think you've made the same mistake like Microsoft in its Office Suite 2003 and Windows XP at all: Designing Icons with millions of colors, using color slides in menu bar and icon bars, and some icons (bold, italic, invisible characters, ...) are becoming diffuse. In summary : It's very exhausting for the eyes using this 2.0 design, you cannot use it for hours without getting very tired in contrast to the 1.1 design. Ok, you can say the design of software GUI in general is going this way (because of Microsoft ?), but is it the right direction at all ? I think, the new Mickey Mouse design of software is not good the serious working on computers. If you plan to support some kind of skins for OO 2 GUI, please select an ergonomic one as default, and not one with color slides and so on where the eyes do not know where they are on the desktop. But I've not found options for changing the appearance, if there's only this design in the future I think it make it worse pushing your software packet in our company because of this ergonomic drawbacks. I appeal to think again about the design of menu and icon bars in order to make a really excellent software package... Thanks + Best Regards, -- Johann Schmid Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Electr. Development Software, EM KATHREIN-Werke KG Anton-Kathrein-Stra�e 1-3 P.O. Box 100 444 83004 Rosenheim, Germany Tel.: +49 8031 184-391 Fax: +49 8031 184-493 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.kathrein.de This e-mail is confidential and may contain privileged information.If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system.The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. We believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are virus free. You must therefore take full responsibility for virus checking.
