It sounds good to enhance the clip art and presentation template. BTW, to name a cell range in Spreadsheet, the menu entrance is Insert-> Name-> Define. The "define range" you mentioned is about Database Range, which is a little different from Name. Symphony has disabled the entrance, use Name only.
Regards, Shan Zhu 2012/7/17 Clarence GUO <[email protected]> > I think new UI means three aspects. > One is about usability which make UI easier to use. Sidebar of Symphony is > a good illustration. Symphony has another good improvement which drew less > attentions, that is it reorganised the menus and toolbars(only on Java > build version). The layout of menus and toolbars in Symphony is more > reasonable I think. For example, the entry of define range name is from > "Create" main menu in Symphony, but that of AOO locates in "Data" main > menu. Symhony is better, because define range name will create a new name > but actions under "Data" main menu are all related to concrete data > operations. > Here I want to discuss the other two aspects(visual design and resources). > Maybe I missed some discussions, but I saw many discussions only focus on > the first aspect. > We also need a new visual design. Nowadays the the popular UI style is > transparent + gradient effect, large and simplified icons, light colors, > some animation effects, and so on. Our UI style is quite old. The visual > design will give users the first feeling. So it is as important as the > first aspect. > And our resources are quite old too. Here the resources I mean gallery, > templates of Presentaion master pages and so on. We really need to update > them. > I really hope new AOO3.5 or 4.0 can attract my eyes when I first see it. > > > 2012/7/16 Christopher Jackson <[email protected]> > > > I am writing to ask you if there is any desire among you and the > developers > > of OpenOffice to update the user interface for the suite? > > > > > > > > your competitor, microsoft of course has updated their user interface. > as a > > simple user, I think updating the user interface would greatly improve > the > > product. we can't always sit in one spot and never change. > > > > > > > > thanks for you time. > > > > > > > > Chris Jackson > > > > Maryland USA > > > > >
