Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Sabin Densmore
I agree completely with your thoughts below, Scott. We should not only be striving for ease-of-use, but for pushing the boundaries of interaction models. If we can a) improve access to and understanding of the most commonly used features and b) do so in a way that is attractive and simple, we s

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Budislav Stepanov
I agree. You should look at the facts, which show that this program needs a completeredesign. In LibreOffice torn all icons, maybe 5 follow the same design, but others do not, if we compare ms office , we can see how intelligent layout of the interface, everything is close at hand and far easier. I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Scott On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: > Hey all, > > One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign > proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for > the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video ( > htt

[libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all, One thing that I've noticed is that we have a lot of great redesign proposals floating around, but we have yet to establish a true direction for the Libre Office platform. Someone recently posted this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4 ) which really made me realize the i

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Bjorn, On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 13:27 +0200, Björn Balazs wrote: > HiChristoph, Phil, dror, * > > The discussion goes excatly into the right direction - but I would like to > actually do things step by step, and not not doing anything right now because > there is a far goal we would like to r

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-17 Thread planas
Shawn. On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 16:08 +0200, Shawn Beasley wrote: > Hi all, > > This thread is awesome and almost too much for one thread :D I would like to > jump into the deep end of the pool now and hopefully not sink to the bottom > like a rock. I am relatively new here and look forward to he

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-17 Thread Shawn Beasley
Hi all, This thread is awesome and almost too much for one thread :D I would like to jump into the deep end of the pool now and hopefully not sink to the bottom like a rock. I am relatively new here and look forward to helping out where I can. IMHO, the biggest problem I have with researching u

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-17 Thread Sveinn í Felli
Þann fim 16.jún 2011 11:29, skrifaði Björn Balazs: (sorry for evtentual double posting - got the wrong mail-account before...) Hi Christoph, Phil, dror, * The discussion goes excatly into the right direction - but I would like to actually do things step by step, and not not doing anything right