Re: [libreoffice-design] The future of design suggestions

2011-06-20 Thread Scott Pledger
+1 on the gallery concept. I am more than willing to set it up and maintain it with the different UI reworks posted here and I think we can even come up with some templates to add it to the wiki's whiteboards. What do you think? I fully agree with the gallery idea, this is the best solution,

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-19 Thread Scott Pledger
Bernhard, all, These are all wonderful points!! 2011/6/19 Bernhard Dippoldbernh...@familie-dippold.at: *The Goals:* - *Make LibreOffice easy to use while retaining its power.* I don't know if it is reasonable to have these two topics linked together so tigthly. Ease of use is of course

[libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-19 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all, While we're trying to come up with goals for LibreOffice, I'd like to see what people think of LO as it stands today. Please please please take the time to respond to this as it can really help us to determine where exactly we ought to go!

Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-18 Thread Scott Pledger
.* or whatever it winds up being). In the long run, this kind of short-term refining would make LO a far better product than it is today. Thanks for all the input - keep it coming! Scott On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:46, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/17 Scott Pledger scottpledger2

[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

[libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-08 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

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Ribbons and Background Color UX

2011-05-26 Thread Scott Pledger
Hey all! Sorry its been so long!! This is a topic that I've put a lot of thought into and one which I would love to work both the design and implementation sides of. Personally, I have an extreme dislike of the way that MS Office handles its ribbon layout. When you combine the Office 2011

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship... [please everybody, post a short reply]

2011-05-26 Thread Scott Pledger
+1 from me! Scott On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:12, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: Hi all! Am Donnerstag, den 26.05.2011, 09:05 +0200 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Hi, 2011/5/26 klaus-jürgen weghorn ol o...@sophia-louise.de Hi, oh, I wouldn't call this job as a lead or

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Toolbar Usability Interface - Big Picture

2011-05-08 Thread Scott Pledger
Jared This sounds an awful lot like an idea I had when first creating my mock-up layout (default layout is viewable at http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Concept.pdf) where the user could move options around to wherever they wanted them (for instance, the top tabs could be moved to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Status of the Design Team Kick-Off, and a Personal Note

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Pledger
Congratulations, Christoph!!! Giving life is one of the greatest blessings there is! Yours Truly, Scott R. Pledger On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 13:37, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-05-05 12:24, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all, sorry (in advance) for sending personal stuff to this

Re: [libreoffice-design] New Layout Concept - Update

2011-04-29 Thread Scott Pledger
now ? On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:44 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: I have done a bit more work on the layout concept I described in some earlier emails. Let me know what you think!! The File and View menus are interactive when you view the presentation. http://pledgecomputers.com

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-29 Thread Scott Pledger
suggestions would be really helpful!* Yours Truly, Scott R. Pledger On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 08:25, Kohei Yoshida kyosh...@novell.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:15 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar

Re: XML based UI? (was: Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?))

2011-04-29 Thread Scott Pledger
-0600, Scott Pledger wrote: Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... We don't have any concrete vision of what the VCL replacement should look like, but making UI definition files XML-based

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
, but it will render them in a manner that allows for much better desktop integration without completely rejecting using our own layout/widget concepts... Yours Truly, Scott Pledger On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 16:01, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/4/27 Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com: Hi

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-28 Thread Scott Pledger
Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... Yours Truly, Scott Pledger On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 22:39, Kohei Yoshida kyosh...@novell.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:29 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-27 Thread Scott Pledger
in mind? Would you be interested in driving this effort (the item Clarify Marketing Questions)? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off/WhatWeNeed#Knowledge_and_Requirements Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 10:49 -0600 schrieb Scott Pledger: My only concern when asking this question

Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

2011-04-27 Thread Scott Pledger
Scott Pledger: Christoph, Yes that is exactly what I had been thinking!! And sure, I'd be glad to help however I can! That'll be great ... so may I kindly ask you for something? To me, the most important thing is to have a look at the WWN list in the wiki. I've spend so much time

Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?

2011-04-26 Thread Scott Pledger
This is actually very close to the design I'm currently working on for LibreOffice and, indeed, partly its inspiration. Much of the difference between the implementation of Lotus Symphony and my design is that Lotus Symphony's side bar does not constitute of panels which change based on what the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?

2011-04-26 Thread Scott Pledger
think menus should stay horizontally on top of the gui.Best RegardsChristopherOn 4/26/2011 5:19 PM, Scott Pledger wrote:This is actually very close to the design I'm currently working on for LibreOffice and, indeed, partly its inspiration. Much of the difference between

Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?

2011-04-26 Thread Scott Pledger
:06, Scott Pledger scottpledger2...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks! One additional notion that I've had for it is to have any extraneous popup windows be displayed as part of the menu hierarchy. For instance, the current Insert Frame dialog box would be shown such that it is a part of the menu

[libreoffice-design] New Layout Concept

2011-04-20 Thread Scott Pledger
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Re: [libreoffice-design] New Layout Concept

2011-04-20 Thread Scott Pledger
Oh, I see! Well here are links to it: http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Concept.pdf http://pledgecomputers.com/LibreOffice/Redesign/Concept.odg Thanks! Scott R. Pledger On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:11, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/4/20 Scott Pledger scottpledger2