Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-13 Thread Rafael Rocha Daud
Hi, Patrick, this is really beautiful, and I really think tabs are the way to go. Firefox did, and soon enough nobody could live without it in the browser, and while no one uses as many open documents as they do with web pages at the same time, only two or three can bloat your screen real est

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-12 Thread Patrick Scott
Hi Phil, I like the idea of being able to configure the position/orientation of many UI elements such as tabs, toolbars or whatever else gets put in LO. I too wonder what the effort would be for the side by side layout. I have a little experience with programming but absolutely no experience of th

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-11 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Patrick Nice Mock-ups of Tabbed Folders and Side-by-side documents. I think the way you've done the layout for side-by-side to be extremely effective. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be for the programmers to develop? Now you have the whiteboard page done, we have it recorded and we

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-11 Thread Patrick Scott
Hi all, So I spent the afternoon exploring what tabbed documents might look like using GIMP. I installed the Ubuntu Global menu extension, took a screenshot and then added in some Chromium tabs to the standard LibreOffice 3.3 UI. Here is the result: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LO-Tabs

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-11 Thread Patrick Scott
Hi Christopher, Phil Also, to save on screen real estate, such a tab toolbar could be automatically hidden when only one document is open. Phil, I find it hard to imagine what vertical tabs would look like but it seems like an interesting concept. However, it might be a hard sell since users are a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-11 Thread Christopher Stark
Hi, my suggestion would be to have the tabs horizontally but in a toolbar that can be activated or deactivated. If it is deactivated then other or new documents appear in new windows, if it is activated in tabs. Christopher Am 11.06.2011 06:53, schrieb Cyril Arnaud: > I'm personally not so su

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread Cyril Arnaud
I'm personally not so sure about the vertical tabs. If the tabs are similar to the one you can use on chromium for instance, you save more screen realestate than with a vertical bar. Using tab should be very discreet since it's not necessary for your activity in one doc, but could increase your eff

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread planas
Hi Phil and Patrick On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:54 +1200, Phil Jackson wrote: > Hi Patrick > > This could work also if there was an option for vertical tabs to the > left. Certainly it is important for Writer to maximise vertical space > for document display and some users (including me) would li

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread planas
Patrick, On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:55 +0100, Patrick Scott wrote: > Hi all. > > What do people think about tabbed documents a la Lotus Symphony. I wouldn't > have much use for it myself but I keep seeing the suggestion pop up in the > comments on forums and articles etc so it's seems like it migh

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Patrick This could work also if there was an option for vertical tabs to the left. Certainly it is important for Writer to maximise vertical space for document display and some users (including me) would like to see this idea as an option on the left or right. It could be part of another

Re: [libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi, Am 10.06.2011 22:55, schrieb Patrick Scott: Hi all. What do people think about tabbed documents a la Lotus Symphony. I wouldn't have much use for it myself but I keep seeing the suggestion pop up in the comments on forums and articles etc so it's seems like it might be an important feature f

[libreoffice-design] Tabbed Documents

2011-06-10 Thread Patrick Scott
Hi all. What do people think about tabbed documents a la Lotus Symphony. I wouldn't have much use for it myself but I keep seeing the suggestion pop up in the comments on forums and articles etc so it's seems like it might be an important feature for some [and another means of differentiating ours