Gary, There'll hardly be a user drain simply because we remove some poorly executed gradients and make the icons more beautiful<http://thenounproject.com/>and quicker to recognize.
Gradients are hard to master - if done right though the result can be very pleasant (i.e. Firefox) - but they are hardly ever necessary. --Dwayne http://www.wolff-olins.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:15 AM, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/29/2012 06:41 AM, Dwayne Henderson wrote: > > I like what I'm hearing, thanks Tony and Kevin! > > > > I say we start by: > > > > 1. Removing the majority of details from our icons, making them > monochrome > > and perhaps slightly reshaping some of them (I could do this if noone > else > > wants to) > > > > 2. Removing the gradients, replacing them with light shades of grey and > > blue (with subtle slightly darker outlines when it's necessary to > separate > > things) > > > > 3. Reducing the two icon / dropdown bars to just one > > 3.1. Making Calc track which icons / dropdowns are most popular so we > know > > which ones to display (and so we can base our UI on our own data and not > > just blindly copy Google's) > > Right... and of course all of that will comply with: > <http://www.openoffice.org/ui/accessibility/> > > These might be of further interest: > <http://www.google.com/google-d-s/accessibility/documents.html> > <http://accessibility.psu.edu/googledocs> > > I suggest if you folks wish to do this, that you implement as a 'theme' > that the user can choose to use if they wish. If you intend to make it > the default, then I reckon that you'll have considerable issues (user > drain being one of them). > > Gary > > > > > --Dwayne > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Kevin Grignon < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hey! > >> > > >> > Any chance OO Calc's UI can become more like that of Google Docs? > >> > > >> > http://i.imgur.com/Jadsg.png > .... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
