Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Calc Survey

2021-06-30 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Heiko and team, *Additional question recommendation*: Q: In what capacity do you use Calc? (Check all that apply) 1. Education/school 2. Professional 3. Personal (e.g. home office, accounting) Wording here is VERY rough, but I thought use cases could be valuable. (e.g. 82% of Calc users use it

Re: [libreoffice-design] Adding [UX] and [VI] tags to mail subjects?

2011-05-17 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi everyone, Great idea! I prefer to use shorter tags such as [UX] and [VI] as opposed to full words. Otherwise the subject of the email may get cut off, especially since all our emails are automatically tagged with the list at the beginning ex: [libreoffice-design][UX]. As for the specific

Re: [libreoffice-design] some backgrounds for libreoffice

2011-04-06 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Gaël, Additionally, please feel free to look at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Presentation_Templates which has the beginning structure of a working page for the Impress Backgrounds. I started an effort to critique the current templates and propose a structure to update the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposal for Saving Information icons on Status Bar

2011-03-06 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Paulo, Christoph, Wow... I can't believe its been so long. This thread took quite the nap. I also like Style 1 best, top right corner, and 14x11. Although the orange seems a bit loud. I guess that is acceptable since it is likely the most appropriate color from our arsenal. It seems fine

Re: [libreoffice-design] ligatures in the logo

2011-03-04 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Joey, Sorry to disappoint after all your work but I took a poll at work and it was unianimous... people liked the original logo better. They thought it was easier to read (f's are too close) and they thought the f connecting to the i was out of place with the rest of the logo. Vote: Original

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Re: [libreoffice-design] Motif draft

2011-03-04 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Nik, I would love to be involved but unfortunately I still feel that I don't fully understand what is desired in the motif (what is the end deliverable). Of course, design is not my main background (mechanical engineering is) so hopefully once design proposals go up I can contribute. I look

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] fdo#31251 - Improve default page layout

2011-03-04 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi all, I like both ideas but lean towards Andrews suggestion. I would like to instead propose a different approach but perhaps from a coding perspective it would not be an easy hack. There was discussion over the years on the OOo list about changing the background from the dull gray to

Re: [libreoffice-design] Using a Gallery table in the wiki to provide design resources?

2011-03-01 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Bernhard, I think it is a great idea! It worked really well on the OOo wiki and I think it will work again! On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Hi all, as this topic is relevant for design and marketing, I don't see a way to avoid

Re: [libreoffice-design] Branding resources - external and internal use, or ... ?

2011-03-01 Thread Jaron Kuppers
HI Christoph, Bernhard, Side note: Where can I find the Steering Committee call for Trademark Guidlines? Or for that matter any Steering Committee actions... I can't find any SC meeting notes from 2011 on the wiki. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote:

Re: [libreoffice-design] [approval request] Challenge banner proposals by Paulo

2011-02-25 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi all, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: 2nd topic: Approval of Paulo's skyscraper banner I would ask you to approve the skyscraper (160x600px) vertical banner as official design element to be used on external websites:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Blog Posting: ODF Mime Type Icons Redesign

2011-02-23 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Christoph, Thanks! That was a very insightful article! I learn more about design every day. Cheers, Jaron On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: Hi all, Andreas from the OpenOffice.org UX Team published a blog post with some interesting

Re: [libreoffice-design] icon proposal (draft)

2011-02-17 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Tobias, The list does not allow for attachments. Please upload your icons to a 3rd party site or the document foundation wiki. Thanks! Cheers, Jaron On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Tobias Bernard berto...@gmail.com wrote: hi here are some icon drafts. i started from the 256px icons

Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

2011-02-13 Thread Jaron Kuppers
are installed on my Linux system, for instance. I think that a LibO default template must use the fonts delivered with LibO, otherwise there will be compatibility issues on different platforms and that's not good. Cheers, Ricardo 2011/2/12 Jaron Kuppers jaronba...@gmail.com: Hi everyone

Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

2011-02-13 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Paulo, Unfortunately, Impress is horribly buggy and not very intuitive sometimes. The program could use a complete overhaul, and the ODF (.odp) presentation format could use a serious update in order for LibO presentations to compare to MS Powerpoint or Keynote presentations. Some of your

Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

2011-02-07 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi LibO Designers, Quick question... Is anyone familiar with the following: - Right-to-left language templates (ex: Arabic, Hebrew) - Top-to-bottom language templates (ex: Chinese) I feel like it would be nice if we supported those with at least one general use template for each language

Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

2011-02-07 Thread Jaron Kuppers
language Templates:* exs: Chinese Please provide feedback or direction as Kevin and I move forward on developing a few templates. Thanks! Cheers, Jaron On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jaron Kuppers jaronba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi LibO Designers, Quick question... Is anyone familiar

Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

2011-02-01 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Kevin, I had attempted a long time ago a similar project for OOo before I became overwhelmed by other commitments and had to drop the topic. One minor issue I met with was finding templates that satisfied the design community while satisfying user expectations. What I mean is, users

Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposal for Saving Information icons on Status Bar

2011-02-01 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Paulo, It looks like a good start. I will give you more feedback later, (I am busy at work). Cheers, Jaron 2011/2/1 Paulo José paul...@gmail.com Hello everybody! Some days ago, Christoph suggested me [1] to give a try to an already knew issue, related to icons used to show saving

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons: final run!

2011-02-01 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Bernhard, On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Macro_icons.png Do you think they are okay in comparable in quality? I think the Jaron gear works better at the 16px but Paulo's gear looks better at the

Re: [libreoffice-design] CSS Styles for Website (Was: Problem with CSS)

2011-01-30 Thread Jaron Kuppers
/JaronBaron/LibreOffice#5568013638479025490 On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Jaron Kuppers jaronba...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, FYI, I am working on Ivan's request for more appropriate images. Actually I am done but have a busy evening so won't be able to send the final product until tomorrow

Re: [libreoffice-design] 3 problems

2011-01-28 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi James, On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:54 AM, James A. Schulz jasch...@wiseware.comwrote: Christoph, No, I don't see anything in the new features that addresses the problems I listed. Let me try again: 1. The ghost icons I described in my original post can be see at:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Vegur font

2011-01-23 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Hillar, all, I worked on a font once a long time ago so I could perhaps assist in the process but would be reluctant to take a leading role in the continued development of the font. Is there a list of desired characters for the font? If not I could start a page on developing the Vegur to

Re: [libreoffice-design] UX/Visual Design Description (Draft) (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Work on the libreoffice.org content - sitrep 2011/01/22)

2011-01-23 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Christoph, David, As a native speaker I read through Christoph's write-up as per his request. Please consider the few grammatical changes bolded below. Cheers, Jaron On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: ### Start ### LibreOffice aims to be a

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeTyme icons - Macro

2011-01-20 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Bernhard, I love the Macro icon concept. My only issue is the gear itself. Despite the fact that it looks rather like an involute gearhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute_gearwhich as an engineer I really appreciate, I think it would be more recognizable as a square toothed gear, something

Re: [libreoffice-design] Naming and format of MimeType icons - request to developers

2011-01-14 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Thanks Bernhard! Cheers, Jaron P.S. I think it is extremely important for LibO and the Document Foundation to create an identity separate of that from OOo. Therefore I really hope we can get the icon set complete! On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote:

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons - Draw

2011-01-13 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Bernhard and Mirek, Thanks for the comments. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: high contrast; if people like the proposal I will try and do them tomorrow. I think we need to get the symbols right at first, then we should implement them

[libreoffice-design] Re: MimeType icons - Impress

2011-01-12 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi again! Here is my Impress logo proposal. I didn't have time to do the template or high contrast; if people like the proposal I will try and do them tomorrow. http://picasaweb.google.com/JaronBaron/LibreOffice#556137249351106 Cheers, Jaron On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Jaron

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons - Draw

2011-01-12 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Hi Jaron, all, Jaron Kuppers schrieb: Hi Bernhard, My comments are pretty much the same as Christoph's. The 3D look seems out of place, and a box with handles would look great (as shown in his link). I will play with your svg file if you put

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons

2011-01-12 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Christoph and others, I didn't follow my own advise! :-o (tsk tsk Jaron) I put up the source file now: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_Initial_Icons_Jaron_draft_0-1.svg Cheers, Jaron On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.comwrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons

2011-01-11 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi, I think Bernhard's proposal is great. My time will free up after Wednesday so hopefully I can dedicate some serious time to looking over the icon set at that time. The icons currently look professional so I don't think that anyone would look poorly upon them. If we were to submit an icon

Re: [libreoffice-design] MimeType icons - template

2011-01-03 Thread Jaron Kuppers
Hi Bernhard, I think the large 3D binder spirals are too prominent. They distract me from the document and seem to over-shadow the components of the LibreOffice logo. The holes are not prominent enough... I am not able to try my hand at anything at the moment but I would recommend you try