Re: [libreoffice-design] Icons

2011-07-10 Thread Andrew Pullins
://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project Hope this helps :-) Cheers, Christoph Am Freitag, den 08.07.2011, 15:39 -0400 schrieb Andrew Pullins: How would I get all of the icons for LibreOffice. I mean all of them, save, undo, format paintbrush, and all the rest of them. Not just the cool

Re: [libreoffice-design] Icons

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Pullins
: Hi Andrew, all Andrew Pullins schrieb: I am new to Open Source and did not find them right away on in the files. so I figured that they mite be on the Libre design wiki or some thing. I found them shortly after looking on the wiki and posting this email. Great! If you have interest

[libreoffice-design] new menu Idea

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Pullins
so I was looking though the design Whiteboards and came across the A beginning look at alernative navigation modelshttp://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/MenuIdeas whiteboard. well I have been designing my own software, basically I have been disiding what will go in it and how it

Re: [libreoffice-design] [proposal] Dark application background

2011-07-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
I like the idea that the colors and them be a live preview it will just be some time before that is implemented it sounds complicated. but till then I think that the Apply button will work nicely. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:45 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/15 Christopher Lee

Re: [libreoffice-design] [proposal] Dark application background

2011-07-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
Champion Debate On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Andrew Pullins wrote: I like the idea that the colors and them be a live preview it will just be some time before that is implemented it sounds complicated. but till then I think that the Apply button will work nicely. On Thu

Re: [libreoffice-design] [proposal] Dark application background

2011-07-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
order for the end user. 4) Lack of customization. 5) It's just not the right interface. Art programs use palates for a reason. -- Christopher Lee Executive Director Champion Debate On Friday, July 15, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Pullins wrote: I was looking at the options that we are talking

Re: [libreoffice-design] [proposal] Dark application background

2011-07-16 Thread Andrew Pullins
but there's nothing out of my range on this screenie. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com wrote: maybe like this? http://i.imgur.com/LHvxp.png wow this is grate, I don't know what it all says but thank you Google translate. so would you click

Re: [libreoffice-design] [proposal] Dark application background

2011-07-16 Thread Andrew Pullins
Lee gunboatdeba...@gmail.comwrote: If needed, I can translate the text and reupload the image. My German's not fantastic but there's nothing out of my range on this screenie. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com wrote: maybe like this? http

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice dialog windows should conform with Linux's Standard Command Button Layout

2011-07-18 Thread Andrew Pullins
There are UI guides for all major platforms, the Ooo wiki has put a good selection together: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/UI_Style_Guides *. So, yes, you can win. All you need is that behaviour differs a bit from platform to platform. thank you for this I think that I will use

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] A template for the LibreOffice Conference

2011-07-30 Thread Andrew Pullins
I really like Drew's template it in nice and clean. Does any one know whether this conference will be put up on youtube or the LibreOffice and or Document Foundation web site so that those who can not attend can know whats going on. I really liked this video that I found

Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for Extension and Template Repository Site

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Pullins
I thought that this when I saw someone talk about the triangles in the Extensions and I thought that we could use it for Templates. I was unable to use the internet after I uploaded this. But I guess you found it anyway, what do you guys think? now that I look at it I don't really like it all

Re: [libreoffice-design] writer pages are driving me crazy

2011-08-28 Thread Andrew Pullins
, 2011-08-28 at 21:37 -0400, Andrew Pullins wrote: First I wanted to know why the discussion was dead on the design team. was not a month ago that I was getting an email every day. I don't know. Any way I have been using Libre Writer for school and noteist something that drives me crazy

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hey Everyone!

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Pullins
at Twstdude0to1. -Original Message- From: Andrew Pullins [mailto:android2...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 7:53 PM To: design@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-design] Hey Everyone! can not wait, I am interested in improving the UI as well. On Mon, Sep

[libreoffice-design] citrus

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello all, Does any one know what has happened to the guy designing the Citrus UI. I have been trying to get a hold of him so we can collaborate on his UI designs. I am really interested in making LibreOffice look good, and his designs are great. It is something I would say that we need to be

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hey Everyone!

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Pullins
and see if we could collaborate in a final design proposal. The icons you've created are awesome! Hopefully they get put to use in a refresh of the suite. -Original Message- From: Andrew Pullins [mailto:android2...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 8:11 PM To: design

Re: How development develops ... (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] citrus)

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
freaking ugly. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: Hi Andrew! I lack a bit time, so I'll try to comment what's most important to me at the moment. Okay? Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2011, 13:20 -0400 schrieb Andrew Pullins: It depends on the point

Re: [libreoffice-design] citrus

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Pullins
05.09.2011, 20:16 -0400 schrieb Andrew Pullins: Hello all, Does any one know what has happened to the guy designing the Citrus UI. I have been trying to get a hold of him so we can collaborate on his UI designs. I am really interested in making LibreOffice look good, and his

Re: [libreoffice-design] citrus

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Pullins
, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Mirek I have been wanting to talk to you for some time about your designs. Right now, I also don't have an internet connection at home -- I should have it soon, but right now I have to resort to visiting the public library for internet

Re: [libreoffice-design] Download Button on Home Page

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Pullins
back to the original post. I like the color of your design much better, the roll over is nice. its much more vibrant which is good. the current pail one is ugly. though I like how the top right corner is cut off in the pail one. as to witch one I like the Ivan's proposal. as to Alexander we could

Re: [libreoffice-design] Download Button on Home Page

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Pullins
one big chartroom. If IRC is too much to ask, maybe I shall host a web based chat room? -Original Message- From: Andrew Pullins [mailto:android2...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:02 PM To: design@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-design] Download Button

Re: [libreoffice-design] Download Button on Home Page

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
I like it. sorry I tryed to get the other people to switch emails, but then continued with the discussion. what do you think about cutting the top right corner like the present download button is. Again looks grate. cheers On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Ivan M. iv...@patentpending.co.nz

Re: [libreoffice-design] Future libreoffice.org web page: design request

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hi Christoph, Love what you guys are doing here, looks great. Cheers, Andrew On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: Hi all, after my rather lengthly explanation yesterday, here is an structural example (based on See's design) of how it could look

[libreoffice-design] Bug Submission Assistant: Description Example

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
To whom ever is working on the Bug Submission Assistant for the LibreOffice web site. I like what you have done so far, I just have one thing that could make the bug reporting a bit faster/not so focusing for people. if you have ever reported a bug, even though you know what is wrong and know how

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bug Submission Assistant: Description Example

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
Yes I do mean form instead of forum. [...] in addition to the current template [...] in addition to what current template. https://bugassistant.libreoffice.org/libreoffice/bug/bug.html?skin=description this link shows no template, unless you are talking about the whole Bug Submission Assistant

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bug Submission Assistant: Description Example

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
ok so I clicked around on the [1] page and saw what you where talking about. I did not know that you guys already thought of this. i feel stupid... [1] https://bugassistant.libreoffice.org/libreoffice/bug/bug.html?skin=component On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Andrew Pullins android2

Re: [libreoffice-design] citrus

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew Pullins
to the styles menu? links [1] http://clickortap.wordpress.com/category/mockups/citrus-ui/ [2] https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vpid=explorerchrome=truesrcid=0B7y5FMHPsyaNNGJkZDY0ZDItOGNhNi00MzMzLThlNTUtZWU2ZmIyMmYyZmJihl=en_US 2011/9/23 Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com Hi Andrew, 2011/9/13 Andrew Pullins

Re: [libreoffice-design] citrus

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew Pullins
Mirek, why did you switch the order in the text bar. the font name, font size, Bold, Italic are now on the right of right justify, center, left justify, Justify (and for calc top, center, down). just wondering. Andrew 2011/9/24 Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com I'm calling fizz

Re: [libreoffice-design] New web banners. Feedback?

2011-09-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
guys this guy has payed a lot of money for the program he is using, and is very skilled with the tools he every one, has. though I think that we should use free and open source software, we can not force him to use it. why should he switch to the programs that we use if it is compatible that we

Re: [libreoffice-design] New web banners. Feedback?

2011-09-30 Thread Andrew Pullins
Aleksandar, You are welcome and like I said in a reply to one of your emails the Autumn Season banners did inspire me to do something that I'm not sure that we have done before. I am almost done with it, the problem is that I do not own the software that I am making it in and am making it at

[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice ad

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hi so like I said in reply to Aleksandar's banners email, I was inspired to make an advertisment by his* *Autumn Season banners[1]. so this is what came to my mind when I saw them. i do not want to make any one mad but I did make this in adobe flash. one I started it before I knew there was an

[libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice ad

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Pullins
sorry I thought that I sent this last Saturday but I guess that I did not. I would like your feedback on this. I know that the gif looks like crap. I don't know how to make it look like the .swf Andrew On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi so like I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hide ruler by default?

2011-10-13 Thread Andrew Pullins
I never use the rulers, see no need for them in a word processor, or in a presentation. I can not speak for Mirek now but on his blog he talks about the Citrus UI hiding them by default. but I can say that in his UI mock ups there are no rulers. here is a link to his blog where he talks about it

Re: [libreoffice-design] Find and replace

2011-10-16 Thread Andrew Pullins
planas: On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 13:49 -0400, Andrew Pullins wrote: why is it that the Find and Replace hot key was changed from clrt + F to clrt + alt + F. every program that I have ever used has ctrl + F as find. ctrl + F does not seem to do any thing right now. so why did

[libreoffice-design] APP/Online LibreOffice

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Pullins
Okay, so I found out the other day that we are looking into making an online office suit like Google docs and an android/iOS App of LibreOffice. This is nice but there is one problem... our desktop programs still needs a lot of work! Why are we spending the time making completely new Office Suits

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-design] APP/Online LibreOffice

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
As it was explained at the conference, the code used in one will be used in the other, so we won't have two suites. umm... thats what I said. I know that we can reuse code. I am going to school to become a programmer. I am also an artist thats way im in this list now. As for UI

Re: [libreoffice-design] Discussion about Extensions-Site-Layout

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
it looks grate, love the gradients and the motif. looks like the same changes can be made to the Templets page as well. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Nik n...@tdf.nikashsingh.com wrote: Hi Andreas, all, as promised, a mockup;

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-design] APP/Online LibreOffice

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
value. Im trying to get the design team on my side so that WE can get the DEV team on OUR side. in hopes that WE AS A HOLE can get the ball rolling on the thing. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.comwrote: I'll try to summarise what is necessary for LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-design] APP/Online LibreOffice

2011-10-23 Thread Andrew Pullins
HI The current implementation of LibO online is dependent on GTK+ andGTK+ is primarily a Linux technology. Gtk+ can be used on both Mac and Linux (after all, that's what Gimp and Pidgin do). Still, it's improbable that much work will be put into making LibO online running smoothly there.

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-design] APP/Online LibreOffice

2011-10-23 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hi That needs some refinement from my point-of-view. The devices runningAndroid, iOS were made for different tasks ... and became popular for that. Today, people demand to use those devices for different tasks as well - sometimes it works well, sometimes it does not. that. Today, people

[libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
I don't know what happened but I sent that... any way I changed the layers so that it would start to be more like the Citrus mock ups. I made a Tap menu like on your blog. I do not know if you are still thinking of that with Citrus but for *Frivl* I think that it will be good to have. In tap

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
you can not see the preview or when you download it you can not view it. if it is the later it is a SVG so you will have to use inkscape to see it. is any one else having this problem? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
Ok here, I changed the permissions. thats weird I always make my docs Anyone with the link. but it should work now. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7y5FMHPsyaNOGY2OGY4N2UtN2IzMy00NTk2LThhNmYtY2M1OTRiZGI2YTZh -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
HI, - We already explained that we cannot change the UI of LibreOffice all of a sudden or as a whole, but that incremental improvements will be the way to work. However, when it comes to a tablet interface, things are different, as we do not expect to use the LibreOffice interface. The

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some ideas to improve the look feel of LO

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
Well, I got already almost killed at the conf for my agreement to minimize the borders :-) It's ongoing work by Cedric, who worked on the Headers/Footers: http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=818 My specification is here.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

2011-10-28 Thread Andrew Pullins
I think it would be very interesting to collect even more granular feedback on what they dislike with Pages from these people, do you think you could do that some time? Oh I will I just wanted to state that some want more than what is pervided in pages, witch suprised me. because when you

Re: [libreoffice-design] Some Feedback on Citrus.

2011-11-02 Thread Andrew Pullins
HI, If you could write down the places that need updating, that'd be great. I have so much stuff to add and don't really know where to begin. well some of the things on your LibreWiki page has gone with out an update for a while. things have changed so much since you last changed it. as for

[libreoffice-design] Download page?

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hi, I just read an aritcal on lockergnomehttp://www.lockergnome.com/sherman/2011/11/07/oops-no-libreoffice-when-help-files-are-less-than-helpful/.com [1] about how this guy had a client had truble downloading LibreOffice. she saw may different download links and downloaded the help files instead

Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestions for an Android User Interface

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
You may be right. Maybe there is a way of hiding some of the functions and implementing an extendend-view button. Because I think if an office suide under Android doesn't have all the basic functions nobody will really use it except for displaying documents without editing them. for the

Re: [libreoffice-design] any one else.

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
I would like to reply and feedback but I haven't actually the time for doing anything. I think I will need one week more to finish reading mirek blog and wiki (I'm French and a little bit slow to read English). This mail conversation is actually in my to answer list on gmail with four other

Re: [libreoffice-design] any one else.

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
alexander cool cool, get back when you guys can. andrew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Interface Better than Citrus

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Pullins
downward ok so I saw this mock up all over the OMG Ubuntu Citrus post...and I must say that design is the worse thing I have ever seen. the top row definitely looks modern and sleek, but the side bar is just horrible. its like he is trying to reinvent the weal but made a block instead. I do like

[libreoffice-design] New Citrus Mock ups(base)

2011-11-27 Thread Andrew Pullins
HI, I have just uploaded my version of Mirek's Citrus mock up here[1]. Mirek has only done mock ups for Writer, Draw, Impress, and now has made my Calc mock up much better. so when I saw that he had only done the first three I decided to start on the others. in my last installment I made math.

Re: [libreoffice-design] UI: Android, GTK+/Qt, and Windows 8

2011-12-08 Thread Andrew Pullins
sean What would be an ideal solution is to have a LibO 4 pre-/apha version come out with a toolkit and UI rewrite WHILE a LibO 3.x version is out and still being mantianed. this would allow the dev and early testers to test the new UI elements before they would become final and allow

Re: [libreoffice-design] All at once?

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Pullins
where whould the money go??? I mean we all do this for free. who gets paid or what would the money go to. its somthing that I have wondered about donating to open source projects. id be glad to donate to some of them but there are so many people working on this thing, where would it go. I do not

[libreoffice-design] Mobile icons

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello peoples I just created a white board for LibreOffce Mobile[1]http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Mobile_icons. I modeled them to look like iOS icons seance im pretty sure that on iOS your app needs to look like all other icons, square with rounded edges. for android we

[libreoffice-design] Re: Mobile icons

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Pullins
Oh I forgot each of the icons in the SVG section are separate links, and I do not know why they look like they do one the wiki page cheers. andrew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Mobile icons

2011-12-12 Thread Andrew Pullins
ok what ever, im not an icon maker so. they look good but I wanted your thoughts on my icons, not suggestions on using some one else'. besides we could not use those for the iOS, because they would have too look just like every other icon on the platform. apple likes to control every aspect to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Mobile icons

2011-12-19 Thread Andrew Pullins
never mind that we don't have a mobile product yet, I don't think the ratio of the LibO logo should be meddled with so much. A better solution might be to add some sort of desk wood (or something else?) as the backdrop and put the normal icons on top of this. im sorry but that seems like a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace Floppy Disk

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Pullins
I have been wondering that as well. I think that it is funny that we still use the floppy disc as the save button. I think that it should be changed as well, but the icon is used in every program ever. so even though people may not know what it is they know that the button saves there work. what

Re: [libreoffice-design] make proper design for T-shirt out of rough draft

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Pullins
Do you mean this draft: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/User:**See#T-shirts:_LibreOffice_T-* *shirt_designhttp://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:See#T-shirts:_LibreOffice_T-shirt_design I still want that t-shirt. would we be able to get these printed for people to buy. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-design] Developers

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
Back when I started rants about how we need to start changing the UI NOW, that Christoph talked about how we have devs that want to work on the UI. Perhaps a solution could be one of the design team leaders, maybe Christoph, go over to the dev mailing list and get some volunteers to work with us.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re-doing the installer

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew Pullins
I relly like this proposal, looks good. I just installed the new version of LO and noticed that we need to update the install menu. the install menu is very ugly and needs to have all the icons replaced. when we think about replacing all the icons, I think that we don't always realize how many

[libreoffice-design] Sorry Iv been away

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello Sorry for not being in the discussions for some time. im trying to keep up with my emails inbox and Im so confused. people keep submitting their concepts for icons but do not link to their location. where can I find these icons you guys are talking about. I would like to help out with this

Re: [libreoffice-design] Sorry Iv been away

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Pullins
ok thanks. I thought they should be there but did not see anything. Andrew On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrew, 2012/2/29 Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com Hello Sorry for not being in the discussions for some time. im trying to keep up

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Submit your Bold icons

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
never noticed that. that's quite funny when you point that out. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/6 Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com I like your Line idea Mirek to switch the underline to a under/over/through/double through/double under line drop

Re: [libreoffice-design] Quick style modification

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
I like that you changed the normal to normal text. It took me a long time to... well no I finally asked you what the normal meant. this way it tells the use that it has something to do with the text, which should be obvious but for someone who never used styles until just a few months ago it was

Re: [libreoffice-design] random question about Internet printing.

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
wrote: Hi Andrew, *, On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com wrote: does any one know if that would be something that we would/could put in the suite No, as this doesn't belong to the individual software, but to your operating system's printing engine

Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

2012-03-17 Thread Andrew Pullins
I vote for the uppercase icons. It's not that hard to tell that its bold. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Landscape, Portrait mode icons

2012-03-18 Thread Andrew Pullins
I like the pages of Ivan's icons but I like how Mirik's icons show the previous orientation and the arrow to the next orientation. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Another week's over and there's another set of icons to discuss -- namely the

[libreoffice-design] Color Picker mock up

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello I just uploaded some mock ups for the color picker[1]. The first mock up is not mine it was hidden so I unhid it. Tell me what you thinks. Cheers Andrew [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Color_picker -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Color Picker mock up

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Pullins
Alexander, 'Standard' should be a drop-down menu which would let the user selct from several palettes The hole thing is a drop down, so why should standard be a drop down. Standard is just the most common colors that a user would choose from. Then there are more colors in a gradient and custom

Re: [libreoffice-design] Wanted! Moderators for this mailing list :-)

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Pullins
Christoph Personally, I think having three moderators in total is very fine for this kind of list (medium volume). One of the reasons is, that every moderator will be noticed about pending mails ... so work might be doubled in rare cases. if it is a rare case then why should there be a

Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Design team IRC chat

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Pullins
what website do we use for this? iv only done this one other time with a different group. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Ivan Filho ivan...@gmail.com wrote: Em 22/03/2012 19:53, Mirek M. escreveu: I propose we have the first meeting this Saturday at 18:00 GMT, since that's the time that

[libreoffice-design] Color picker

2012-03-24 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, So I just read all of the IRC chat log. I do not see the problem with having a Document Colors section in addition to Custom Colors. when I think about custom colors I think about colors that I have saved and not necessarily colors that I have used. so for example if I need to use a

Re: [libreoffice-design] Color picker

2012-03-25 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello I'm also convinced it would be a nice feature to have, but the drawback would be increasing complexity of the interface and complexity of implementation (I said performance on IRC which is only part of the problem). how complex is having both my custom colors and the colors used in

[libreoffice-design] Document colors are eraser then everyone thinks.

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, having the Color Picker have document colors is much easier then you all think that it is. we do not have to change how the meta data of the files are written to implement this. the document does not need Color meta data. LibreOffice needs to scan the document for the colors. when a doc is

Re: [libreoffice-design] Landscape, Portrait mode icons

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew Pullins
proposal with two variants of the previous state outline, the latest of which I prefer to the original.) 2012/3/18 Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com I like the pages of Ivan's icons but I like how Mirik's icons show the previous orientation and the arrow to the next orientation. On Sat

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew Pullins
does the decision of these icons effect all of the icons that require letters? ex Text Color, Highlight Color, text box, super/sub script... On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'll give this issue one more week, since it's turned out to be so

Re: [libreoffice-design] Call for proposals: New Document

2012-03-31 Thread Andrew Pullins
I can see what Mirek is trying to say with confusing the icons with different function. we know what it stands for because the proposal is for a New Document icon. but new users may not understand what each icon means, and putting the logo into the icon makes it more easily understandable of what

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat tomorrow from 14:00 GMT

2012-03-31 Thread Andrew Pullins
Ok im sorry but I do not understand GMT. Apparently i am UTC/GMT -4 hours. Does this mean that I subtract four hours from the 14:00 GMT, meaning that the meeting is at 10:00 AM for me? could someone explain this for me. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-design] A Whiteboard template

2012-04-01 Thread Andrew Pullins
Sorry I was at church and was unable... did not even know we had a meeting today. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Android UI work

2012-04-03 Thread Andrew Pullins
What do you mean by directory tree? Do you mean that view where you see the icon of the document, doc name, when created, what type, and other info all in one line? Because I hate that view in the desktop. It's fine to offer that for the people who want it for some reason. But the default view

Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Bold and Italic icons

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Pullins
Yah I'm a porgrammer and that won't make LibreOffice any faster. All it will do is make the download and program smaller whitch will make users happy. so we should still do it, but it won't make LO any faster. It's going to load one icon just as fast as any other. -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-design] User testing icons

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Pullins
I don't like the idea of letting the users test the icons. There are many things that the users can test that would benifit us, but the disign of things is not one of them. If they have something that they would like to be different then they can join the team, or find a way to help. I think we

Re: [libreoffice-design] Landscape, Portrait mode icons

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Pullins
with the doted line for the old orientation. I prefer this one because for me, having lines in the page is useless for this icon. Kévin 2012/3/27 Andrew Pullins android2...@gmail.com what does any one think about the doted line behind the document in my icons. Does it seem to be too close

Re: [libreoffice-design] Change The Main Program's Window

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Pullins
Solo he took the document out of it? There is nothing else different about it from how it is now. I don't know why but I do not like it. On Apr 6, 2012 4:08 PM, ape os...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi all, Astron started working on changing Main program's window (soffice.exe). I like when this

Re: [libreoffice-design] Android UI work

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
Mirek I have been trying to open this doc for some time but am having some trouble. when I try to open it it tells me Failed to load the requested file C:\Users\owner\tablet\LibreOffice\frivl.svg. is the document corrupt or something? cheers Andrew On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Mirek M.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Color handling

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, - Do we need recently-used colors? If yes, should they be shared across all LibO modules, across a single LibO module, or apply only to the current window? I believe that if the user changes the text color from their default color, then a document colors section should be appended to

[libreoffice-design] Just created a them whiteboard

2012-04-08 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, apparently in the color picker whiteboard there used to be something about a theme dialog. when asked about it in Mireks email about the color picker I decided to make my own mockup. so here it is [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Document_Themes cheers, Andrew

Re: [libreoffice-design] Just created a them whiteboard

2012-04-08 Thread Andrew Pullins
Mirek, I'd prefer to hold off on creating new whiteboards until we take care of the many we currently have, but since you have started this whiteboard, we'll keep it. Ok, ill just make stuff and then propose it when its the paropreat time then. A couple of notes, though: - Personas are

Re: [libreoffice-design] User testing icons

2012-04-11 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello Testing icons does not mean let the users design them. I agree that users are not the right people for designing icons. I was referring to the discussion of using 'a' or 'A' or 'i' or whatever. My advice would be to design all possible icons and see which work best for different users

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat + whiteboards

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, ... haven't heard anything either. S. Gecko's whiteboard has been hijacked by Andrew anyway. So, I guess, Andrew should deal with either radically cleaning it up or shelving it. Im sorry I thought when I saw Mireks call to change the whiteboards that it was an invitation to start

Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat + whiteboards

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Pullins
Yah I really don't u.understand the scope, and what's in/out of scope. When I wrote the whiteboards that I did, I just wrote what I thought the scope was and hopes if it was wrong that someone will correct it. I'll ask the team about it next time. But till then could you describe it. As I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Windows 8 version?

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
I second Christopher. The metro UI is terrible and will fail. If micr$oft does not change back or bring more of what they have now with windo$ 7 then the end is near. On Apr 14, 2012 3:05 AM, Christopher Stark christopherst...@gmx.de wrote: I'm glad that Metro/Win8 won't be supported soon. For

Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposed Idea Workflow

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Pullins
I love it, should be able to get some work done with these strict dead lines. Do we have a hig? On Apr 14, 2012 9:50 AM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Please take a look at my proposal for our idea workflow and tell me what you think:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposed Idea Workflow

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
hello, I like the wonderkit but it dose not seem like something that we would use. question about the workflow though. you propose that we tackle a whiteboard every week. would we continue working on the flat icons side by side a whiteboard or work one a flat icon that goes along with the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Updated Whiteboard template with more instructional text

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, If a topic needs more room for multiple sections then we could always make multiple wikis and indent them on the whiteboard list like the Toolbars whiteboard is. for the Toolbars I believe that Mirek will propose the way he thinks that the Toolbars should be then in subwhiteboards explain

[libreoffice-design] questions about the status bar

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello im taking all this from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking *For writer* https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/1/1e/New-libreoffice-writer-statusbar-v1.png what is the digital signature. why do we have the document modification. why not put it in the

[libreoffice-design] wheres the IRC meeting log?

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
Hello, did any one record the meetings chat log? I like reading them each week. I want to attend but unfortunately the meetings are about when I go to bed and get very tired. I thought that when I said what times I was available that I would be able to make it, but I get very tired at that time.

Re: [libreoffice-design] questions about the status bar

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Pullins
:26 PM, Sveinn í Felli svei...@nett.is wrote: Þann sun 15.apr 2012 20:38, skrifaði Andrew Pullins: Hello im taking all this from https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/Design/**Writer_Status_Bar_Remakinghttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking

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