Replies interspersed inline. On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:14:32 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Matt Sturgeon to my mailbox:
> Ok, i see that loads of people don't like change, but wy not just > include u'switch' button? Because it has to be prioritised into all the rest of the programming needs and budget. > and OOo needs better looks anyway, the gray theme is boring: Boring or edgy; someone, somewhere isn't going to like it. > even MS Office 2003 has bg images on everything OpenOffice.org is not trying to be a Microsoft Office wanna-be. Bad road to follow; that would result in OO.o always playing catch up, never being able to lead from the front. What you are sort of saying is "On this pedestal is Office - lets try to be like it". When you start exploring the functionality of the programs Office quickly drops from the pedestal and you are left with nothing to follow and a badly structured work model. So OO.o has it's own work model, though it does look at where Office is and what they are doing, no homage is paid. The roadmap is laid out and there is a fixed method for how you can go about influencing it. Please remember there are limited resources in any opensource project and eye candy is probably not a high priority over all. > and even if bg images are two hard (witch i don't think they would be) > at least change the bg colour to a nice one - maybe leave it open to > customization! Customisation is built in, see: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org but a quick search on 'skin' or 'chrome' reveals nothing. Comparing OO.o to Firefox is not good, but i think the reason Firefox has so many third party skins comes back to XULRunner and Firefox's simple extensibility. > An optional ribbon would be nice, better graphics are necessary. Are they really necessary? Will it effect the finished report or thesis on paper, or just affect how people view the tool they are using. I'm not poking at you. You are a visual person, but others can and do have different priorities. It takes all sorts to make a world. People like you that can and do get involved wind up in the UI project. I'm sure any time and expertise you can offer them would be welcome. http://ui.openoffice.org/ http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/index.html http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_ui.html -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
