KG02 - See additional comments inline. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin Grignon <[email protected]>wrote:
> KG01 - See comments inline. > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > As one member of the team, I feel proud that people missed the mail >> merge >> > feature ^o*...although the code can't be applied to our code base, the >> > design does. We can refer to the best from the design, and improve the >> mail >> > merge function here. >> >> Hi Helen >> >> Congratulations and well done, you and your team did an excellent job. >> >> There are some bits that it would be nice to work on. Synching of address >> labels for instance. In the old OOo and it seems in Symphony, the address >> labels were a completely separate document means extra work load for the >> user. >> It would be preferable to generate both letter and address label at the >> same >> time then at the Print dialog, be able to choose Print documents or Print >> labels. >> >> > >> > Besides mail merge & MDI, there are a lot of user experience >> improvements >> > across three editors in this contribution...for example, the sidebar is >> in, >> > which users can access most context properties easily; the clip-art >> > gallery, has many newly designed pictures; numbering & bullet >> enhancements, >> > context menu, look & feel, ...some are bigger ones, but some are very >> small >> > items, but were driven by strong user needs or user study, so IMHO still >> > very valuable for users. >> >> KG01 - Indeed, backed by solid user research and testing Symphony does > have many user experience improvements that we could migrate to the AOO > codebase. UX has been assessing the opportunities to merge or migrate > aspects of the Symphony UX into AOO moving forward. Each offering has > strengths, and each has room for improvement. We are fortunate to be able > to harvest the best from each to deliver the best user experience for our > users. UX team is analyzing the UX merge/migration opportunities. We will > update the UX wiki to include our analysis and recommendations. As always > we look forward to your input and feedback. > KG02 - I have started posting UX migration/merge analysis with specific actionable recommendations to the AOO UX wiki [1]. All are welcome to comment and contribute this ongoing analysis. [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Symphony_Contribution > > > >> It's too bad about the MDI, ironically the pre-SUN StarOffice had an MDI. >> Very good it was too. I do like the sidebar and the whole fresher >> uncluttered look >> >> > >> > These enhancements are spreading in many places (in code) across three >> > editors. It would take quite some time to integrate. I would invite all >> to >> > have a look at the list, and discuss what you like, what we want to use >> > here, and how to go forward...Looking forward to your thoughts. :-) >> > >> >> Will do >> > KG02 - See previous comment. > >> > Helen >> >> Cheers >> GL >> >> > KG01 - See comments inline. > > Regards, > Kevkin > > > >
