Re: [libreoffice-design] Vertical zoom slider

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Mirek, what problem does this solve? Sure, we then have a slightly less crowded status bar, but on the other hand LibO's scrollbar will be shorter and less useful (cf. horizontal scrollbar in Calc). Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hello everyone.

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Maggie, Alex, On 8 March 2012 21:57, Alexander Wilms alexander.wi...@zoho.com wrote: git is a version-control system. It was first developed for the Linux and LibreOffice uses it too. Right. So it's a (better) replacement for things like SVN/CVS/... (The gist of these tools is that you

[libreoffice-design] Suggestions

2012-03-09 Thread Bhaavan Merchant
Hello all, I am Bhaavan Merchant, and am a 3rd year undergrad student. I have been a part of this mailing list for sometime and now wish to take up a Google Summer of Code 2012 project under libreoffice. The ideas which interest me mainly are: a New Template picking UI, and an improved color

Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestions

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Knorr (Astron)
Hi Bhaavan, I am adding the dev list (libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org) here... Astron. On 9 March 2012 12:27, Bhaavan Merchant bhaavanmerch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am Bhaavan Merchant, and am a 3rd year undergrad student. I have been a part of this mailing list for sometime and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-09 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi Mirek, I am not sure if the same UI could be used for touch interfaces and mouse interaction. How would you be able to display the template information when using single click? Maybe the Details drop-down should simply be hidden when one is using a touch device. I think I'll merge the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-09 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi Mirek, I am not sure if the same UI could be used for touch interfaces and mouse interaction. How would you be able to display the template information when using single click? Maybe the Details drop-down should simply be hidden when one is using a touch device. I think I'll merge the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-09 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi, here's the updated mock-up: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/3/3d/Templatesanddocuments_3.png Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-09 Thread Mirek M.
Hi everyone, 2012/3/9 Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@googlemail.com Hi Mirek, Here's what I'd suggest. Since 95% of the time, the user will use the dialog to pick a template, let's use single-click to open a template. Let's have a selection mode with which the user could select and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the Templates and documents dialogue

2012-03-09 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Alex, 2012/3/9 Alexander Wilms alexander.wi...@zoho.com Hi Mirek, I am not sure if the same UI could be used for touch interfaces and mouse interaction. Given that both Windows and Gnome, and maybe Android, plan to be usable with both, it's a goal we should have. How would you be

Re: [libreoffice-design] Vertical zoom slider

2012-03-09 Thread Mirek M.
2012/3/9 Stefan Knorr (Astron) heinzless...@googlemail.com Hi Mirek, what problem does this solve? Sure, we then have a slightly less crowded status bar, but on the other hand LibO's scrollbar will be shorter and less useful (cf. horizontal scrollbar in Calc). It's something Jan

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hello everyone.

2012-03-09 Thread King Duck
Alex and Stefan, I'm a little confused. I checked the instructions for how to build Libreoffice. I do not have Cygwin yet but I'm going to download it. Do I need to get all the git repositories for LibreOffice or just the ones for the website? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Stefan Knorr