[libreoffice-design] The ways to improve Start Center
Hey I have some ideas I need to share with you. 1. Firstly. If you are working with many documents and they are repeatedly rotating, it's sometimes hard to find the ones you are working frequently with. A big help would be bookmarking system known from other softwares. Just mark specific document and it will stick to the top of start center board. Mock up: https://bug-attachments.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=129724 Report: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104736 2. If not bookmarking system, maybe there should be search filed? Let user just type name of document he/she is looking for! 3. I am working with so many documents, that thumbnails become bigger troublemakers than help for me. What do you guys are thinking about additional type of view? I propose good, old view of listed documents in regular rows (with bookmark system). Mock up: http://imgur.com/a/P71Jx -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Not visible cursor in colored background
Hey I have spreadsheet with many cells colored in green or red. They are basic colors from default palette. The problem is that cursor in hardly visible on green background. http://imgur.com/VKL2T6z Could it be stronger and more distinctive? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Proposition for default theme
Hey What do you think about this composition? http://i.imgur.com/KmABRIf.png It's Bird lovin theme ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bird-lovin/ ) with #e0fad5 background color. It's still clear and pretty nice for eyes. It could help single out LO from AOO. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Start Center Niggles
1. Please, add Open and Templates icons from current build ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e4/4.2_start_center.png ) 2. Remove Help button (from bottom, left corner). There is the same button above the toolbar (menu File, Tool, Help). Instead of give users button-link to template's repository (next to button-link to extensions' repository) 3. Give back normal components name, that is Text document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Formula, Database. Current names will look horrible after translated. Can we delete single document and how can we delete all document at once? 2013/12/13 Jan Holesovsky ke...@collabora.com Hi Mirek, all, Mirek M. píše v St 04. 12. 2013 v 10:03 +0100: Yes, here are the decisions [1]: * Keep sidebar on the left for LTR locales, have it on the right for RTL locales. * Use thumbnails, but indicate file type using colors or badges. -- We still need to design this, but if we don't do it in time, having no color codes for this release is fine and we'll put them in the next one. * Use 2-line labels, with the name cut off in the middle, just like the labels in Gnome Documents. * Show the full file path (including extension) in a tooltip. * Button labels: Create Writer Text Document (or simply Writer Document, if Writer Text Document is too long in some languages -- your call), Calc Spreadsheet, Impress Presentation, Draw Drawing, Math Formula, Base Database * Greeting: Welcome to LibreOffice. Use the sidebar to open or create a file. So I have implemented most of these, I think I've left out only the 2 lines description - it is more complex unfortunately :-( I also fixed a couple of things that were annoying me personally. The results are here: Empty start center, with no documents: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/design-list/startcenter-empty.png Some recent documents present: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/design-list/startcenter-recent.png You can see some differences to the design, most notably: - Create When playing with that, it started to annoy me that it is _above_ the separator line, and that it has smaller font size. Also, it logically belongs to the group of the buttons, so I moved it there, gave it the same size as the button text, and added a colon. I believe it works pretty well ;-) - Thumbnails I considerably increased their size, and improved their drawing algorithm to antialias the pictures. Also for the files that have no thumbnail, I made it look like the icon is on a piece of paper; looks much more consistently when there are more documents open. - Open File I changed the pure 'Open' to 'Open File' - I think it goes better with the explanatory Writer Document / Calc Spreadsheet etc. - Various pixel here, pixel there tweaks To get more breathing space etc. - hopefully you are happy with the result, it would be just too painful for everybody to ping-pong every change there :-) - Mouse over Now we have a mouse over effect when you point at the thumbnails. Finally - there are still things to fix around accessibility, haven't changed a bit there; but that shouldn't be affected by the UI freeze, I still plan to have a look. Please shout if anything is wrong - but I hope the current state is acceptable for most :-) Everyone, please play with the nightly build that is built after now report bugs. All the best, Kendy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Miłego dnia życzę, hej M.Z. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Controversial topics for the start center
2013/11/25 Laurent Lyaudet laurent.lyau...@gmail.com Hi, We just added a section Open Problems to the wiki for the start center: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Start_Center So far we have 3 topics discussed: - Sidebar positioning - Icons or thumbnails - Tabs with file type pickers Please add to the wiki all pros and cons you can think about for these topics. We'll try to have definitive resolutions next week at the IRC chat. Why I get impression that this Start Center is one step ahead and two steps back? In my opinion: + there should be Open and Templates icons. Without them, options are invisible (dead zone for eyes) + there should be Location address bar. + every thumbnail should has gray background only if mouse cursor is over document + user should can manage single document and whole list as well. + tabs are really nice feature if user works with many documents And last but not least. I remove new prefix because other language than English are not so simple and this short word will looks obscure e.g. in Polish. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/e4/4.2_start_center.png -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Welcome screen LO 4.2
Hey Did anyone try add Open and Templates icons to StartCenter? Plus, there is no Clear recent documents options (and should be). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Hey Sorry, but he refused and pointed out that welcome sign is in lower left corner. I know that is not what you exactly expected, but it's only thing we have. Maybe he just doesn't have an idea for appropriate performance your concept? I will try to persuade him to take part in others tasks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Again - thanks for the mockup, I like it. The only missing piece (and that was what I was searching for in the first place) was what to show in case there are no recent documents in the left part of your mockup - can you please provide such a mockup too? I asked him for new concept but now he is away so please be patient. So what about with the easiest solution? http://i.imgur.com/tt34Dg7.png -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
2013/10/15 Mateusz Zasuwik mzasu...@gmail.com Again - thanks for the mockup, I like it. The only missing piece (and that was what I was searching for in the first place) was what to show in case there are no recent documents in the left part of your mockup - can you please provide such a mockup too? I asked him for new concept but now he is away so please be patient. It is his work. What do you think? http://i.imgur.com/KWpS7tu.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RUfcMlw.jpg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
Hey Guys, are you serious? Currently Start Center for LO 4.2 is horrible! Is here any guy from UX Team? My friend is professional designer and when I showed him new LibreOffice, he ask what is purpose of these small icons? Please reject this awful interface and do something more attractive and intuitive! I asked him for better mockup and he did this. http://i.imgur.com/iJcSVxU.jpg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2
2013/10/14 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos f...@libreoffice.org Relax, take it easy. The screenshot is OBVIOUSLY not the final look. Thanks for your mock-up, though: I like it :-) Not so obvious for me. Actually I don't understand why the first version of new Start Center is so unintuitive and ugly . There should be some guidelines for developer programming interface. If first alpha is coming with the beginning of month, will developers make with it? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Porting Symphony's graphic elements to LO?
Hey guys! What are you thinking about porting gradients (or even more graphic elements like gallery or color palette) from Symphony to LibreOffice? Symphony has pretty ones and all bitmaps has been moved to AOO 4 yet. Look at this gradients: http://people.apache.org/~alg/Gradients/gradients.png It shouldn't be licensing problem because TDF made similar movement with code in the past. I have a sensation that Symphony is visually much prettier than LO in general so I think It would be best If foundation could replace old by new such as it's in AOO 4 now. Of course others mustn't agree with me so another idea is just add new elements and leave both of them. There is discussion about mixing AOO and Symphony color palette. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3C50D2EC5B.2040507%40me.com%3E What is yours opinion? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Porting Symphony's graphic elements to LO?
2013/2/20 Stefan Knorr heinzless...@gmail.com Hi Mateusz, On Wed, 20 Feb, 2013 at 4:04 , Mateusz Zasuwik mzasu...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys! What are you thinking about porting gradients (or even more graphic elements like gallery or color palette) from Symphony to LibreOffice? Symphony has pretty ones and all bitmaps has been moved to AOO 4 yet. Look at this gradients: http://people.apache.org/~alg/Gradients/gradients.png It shouldn't be licensing problem because TDF made similar movement with code in the past. No, we currently don't include any Symphony code (except for maybe some bug fixes that are already in Aoo's trunk). The licensing situation around the Symphony code itself is still somewhat sketchy – so I don't think we can do that yet. (IANAL) If you have further questions, you might want to refer to Michael (CC'd). Astron. OK, but as I mention these features are also in AOO 4 so it must be licensing under Apache License and can be copied such as others things, right? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
