Re: [Libreoffice] Suggestions for improving the look 'n' feel of LibreOffice
Hi Alex, On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 18:57 +0200, alexander.wi...@zoho.com wrote: My name is Alex and I am a member of the design team. I've collected several ideas regarding the look of LO. I'd like to hear your opinions: Great ! :-) the best list for this is libreoffice-ux-adv...@lists.freedesktop.org I've CC'd that - hopefully we can take follow-ups to there. 2) Currently, only Shift allows scaling a picture while keeping the ratio. Apparently thats how Word works, too, but if one is used to Gimp or Inkscape one intuitively tries Ctrl. I suggest to allow both keys. IMHO the ability to scale an -image- destroying it's aspect ratio - which we have by default on re-sizing them is a mis-feature. IMHO we should invert the sense here - dragging the corner handles should by default preserve aspect ratio (perhaps just for images). Clearly other handles are already provided and near at hand for sizing in just one direction, and we should flip the sense of ctrl||shift to allow aspect-busting sizing. But of course consensus on that appreciated - so we can knock up an easy hack. Sadly, looking over the shoulder of my wife, plus daughters I've had to undo / fix-this up for them several times, and no doubt lots of people screw up their documents accidentally like this. [ Still, with 4x3 TV frequently stretched to 16x9, perhaps people are hardened these days to seeing footballers as fatter and shorter than they really are ;-] 5) The handles for resizing and rotating look rather dated. They should be replaced by some squares/circles filled with a nice gradient. Are they hardcoded or could the graphics simply be replaced? Agreed - there are two modes: large and small for the handles but both look dated as you say. Some consensus on this from the design team might let us create some easy hack around this. Lets build that on ux-advise. It'd be great to have someone to track discussion on the topics and come up with a consensus there. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: [Libreoffice] Suggestions for improving the look 'n' feel of LibreOffice
At 6:40pm -0400 Sat, 29 Oct 2011, alexander.wi...@zoho.com wrote: I've just created this small mock-up, of what I think could be a good solution: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Toxicbits That seems a good start. But let's see if some other devs have any thoughts, or if ... is it Christoph Noack? (the design team liason?) ... have any thoughts. Cheers, Kevin ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: [Libreoffice] Suggestions for improving the look 'n' feel of LibreOffice
At 12:57pm -0400 Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Alexander Wilms wrote: There's a short summary with a few examples in this document: http://ubuntuone.com/7m7AXgeh7OIwGBiCOHAjGh 1) It would be useful if the user could define alternating colors for table rows/columns and maybe even export Styles for text/shapes/tables formatting and coloring to a xml file or something for easy exchange. I concur that this would be very helpful, at least in my line(s) of work. I hope, however, that it could be more general than just every other row/column. For instance, there are times I need every 3rd row to be colored, or I need a set of 2 rows colored every 2 rows. Something like Row 1: color 1 Row 2: color 1 Row 3: color 2 Row 4: color 2 Row 5: color 1 Row 6: color 1 Row 7: color 2 Row 8: color 2 etc. I've done this manually to date, but having a general description or way to handle this would be *very* nice. As to how difficult it would be to implement? I don't know. I'm not working in that part of the code. However, I'll bet an interested (coding) party would have an easier time going about it if there were an actual use-case/specification. Cheers, Kevin ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: [Libreoffice] Suggestions for improving the look 'n' feel of LibreOffice
Hi Kevin, all Thats good to hear :). I've just created this small mock-up, of what I think could be a good solution: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Toxicbits What do you think? Greetings Alex Am Sa 29 Okt 2011 23:37:47 CEST schrieb Kevin Hunter: At 12:57pm -0400 Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Alexander Wilms wrote: There's a short summary with a few examples in this document: http://ubuntuone.com/7m7AXgeh7OIwGBiCOHAjGh 1) It would be useful if the user could define alternating colors for table rows/columns and maybe even export Styles for text/shapes/tables formatting and coloring to a xml file or something for easy exchange. I concur that this would be very helpful, at least in my line(s) of work. I hope, however, that it could be more general than just every other row/column. For instance, there are times I need every 3rd row to be colored, or I need a set of 2 rows colored every 2 rows. Something like Row 1: color 1 Row 2: color 1 Row 3: color 2 Row 4: color 2 Row 5: color 1 Row 6: color 1 Row 7: color 2 Row 8: color 2 etc. I've done this manually to date, but having a general description or way to handle this would be *very* nice. As to how difficult it would be to implement? I don't know. I'm not working in that part of the code. However, I'll bet an interested (coding) party would have an easier time going about it if there were an actual use-case/specification. Cheers, Kevin ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
