https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50610
--- Comment #1 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> 2012-06-02 03:49:46 PDT --- Created attachment 62416 --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62416 The "Options > LibreOffice > User Data" dialog in LibO 3.5 and Master versions (comparison of screenshots) (1) All panes of the general application Options dialog (on MacOS, located at "LibreOffice > Preferences", elsewhere located at "Tools > Options") have a discreet 3D frame which frames all controls right of the main options selection list and above the four push buttons. (It's hard to describe what I mean, but just take a look at the screenshots and you will see what I mean.) This discreet 3D frame is no longer discreet since 2012-05-24: the right and bottom line of the frame now appears in black instead of medium grey. This applies to all panes of the Options dialog ("User Data", "General", "Memory", "View", and so on); the attached screenshot shows the 1st pane, "User Data", in LibreOffice 3.5.4, and in Master builds 2012-05-22 and -24. If the same type of control, i.e. the same 3D frame is used elsewhere in LibreOffice, it will probably suffer from the same problem. So, we need the two black lines (right and bottom) to be medium grey again. * Additional observation: If you compare the Master screenshots with the 3.5 screenshot, you will observe another visual problem. In Master, all controls in the pane, beginning from the headline ("Address"), have been shifted upwards, which is fine, but now the headline ("Address") interferes visually with the 3D frame, and the horizontal 3D line at the right of the headline is now so near to the top border of the 3D frame that either the frame or the line near the headline seems superfluous. Again, this visual problem is present in all panes of the Options dialog, and in some the visual interference between the headline and the top of the 3D frame looks even worse (depending on how long the headline is). This is, of course, an independend problem, and I will file a separate bug report for it. I mention it here just because I can imagine a simple solution for *both* problems (that some parts of the 3D frame are too dark now, and that the top of the 3D frame interferes with the headline): On all Options panes, just kill the 3D frame, or make it invisible, at least on MacOS X! We don't need so many 3D frames and borders in the UI anymore, they look too much like the 1990s. The discreet horizontal line at the right of the headline is enough to emphasize the headline, and that the controls in each pane of the Options dialog are related to each other is just obvious, we don't need any frame to tell that. Removing the 3D frame completely would also be just a consequence of Kendy's improvements of the main Window look (of rulers and status bar etc.): simplicity is beautiful, this 3D frame is as superfluous as the 3D frames and borders in the main Window. This is my suggestion (I'm not a developer, but a long-time MacOS user with some experience in graphic design, even application UI design, therefore I am confident that my suggestion is not completely wrong ;-). If you can't follow it for now, we need, at least, the right and bottom border of the 3D frame to be medium grey again. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
