[libreoffice-design] I'm going to leave the community - thanks to all of you!

2011-10-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, I'm very sorry that I have to announce this: I can't spend my time on LibreOffice any more. During the last weeks (to be honest: even the last months) I only read this list and some of the others I'm subscribed to, but my replies became very rare. I tried for a very long time to avo

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VOTE CLOSED] Christoph Noack is Design Team Lead!

2011-09-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
support you! Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] Up to now several Design Team members posted their opinion: Björn Balasz (+1) Sabin Densmore (+1) Kévin Peignot (+1) Alexander Wilms (+1) Charles-H. Schulz (congratulations - don't know if for the Lead position) (added +1) Ivan Miskovic (+1) T

[libreoffice-design] [VOTE] Christoph Noack as Design Team Lead focusing on UX (was: Flying the ship...)

2011-09-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Christoph, all I already wrote a (inrelation to my other mails) short posting to this list, but my Internet connection here at work killed it instead of sending, so I can use this reply as formal starting point to an official voting. (and as my mail client is used to break threads, I can star

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship...

2011-09-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, yes - this is a really old thread, but I think it is important enough to revive it now that Christoph is (officially) back again: Nik schrieb: Hi Bernhard, all, On 6/7/2011 7:33 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] One point I didn't mention even if it is very present for me:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Private stuff: It seems that I'm back :-)

2011-09-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Christoph, all, Christoph Noack schrieb: Hi all, a few months ago I've said that I will be "offline" for some time ... because of very good family reasons [1] *g* In the last weeks, I found myself involved in numerous topics, bug reports, discussions on libo-ux-advise, the Munich Hackfest,

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

2011-08-04 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke schrieb: Hi Christoph, *, Am Dienstag, 2. August 2011, 15:52:00 schrieb Christoph Noack: [...] because of technical issues with the searching in the PloneSoftwareCenter, which searches through the whole Extension-Template-Repository-Site and display under "an

Re: [libreoffice-design] URGENT: we need the split logo of the LibreOffice Conference

2011-08-04 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Christoph, Charles, all please DON'T USE the file I attached to the last mail, I found the reason for the wrong formatting of the triangle created "O": The triangles have been cloned from an original not visible in the graphic and the clones are moved by Inkscape when they are converted to

Re: [libreoffice-design] URGENT: we need the split logo of the LibreOffice Conference

2011-08-04 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Charles, could you be a bit more specific? Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: Hi, Resending this here as Christoph is unavailable: I'd need the same files (colours only) under EPS format. In Christoph's ZIP are many files - including several EPS files. If you just refer to the color file without

Re: [libreoffice-design] New Conference and Challenge banners on libreoffice.org home page

2011-07-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi David, all David Nelson schrieb: Hi Design guys, Charles Schulz recently requested a couple of links/banners on the libreoffice.org home page linking to the Challenge and Conference sites. After seeing that there were no proposals, I went ahead and produced a couple, which you might like to

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

2011-07-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andreas, Astron, all, Andreas Mantke schrieb: Hi, Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2011, 11:04:19 schrieb Astron: Hi Andreas, I have uploaded a logo based on Nikash's with "Templates" added. Take a look here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Exttemplogo.png Source file is here: http://wiki.do

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Libre Icons.zip

2011-07-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Toby, Astron, all Astron schrieb: Hello Toby, First of all, you are probably writing to the wrong list. Design question best go to design@global.libreoffice.org and you're invited to join there (I'm CC'ing this list). Thanks, Astron, for moving this topic to this list! Second, please not

Re: [libreoffice-design] bug fdo#36946 - Slide Transitions

2011-07-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Rob, all, Rob Snelders schrieb: Hi All, I'm trying to solve bug fdo#36946. Great! This is one of the features where MS Office is really in front of LibreOffice... But I'm trying to see what the best categories are. When I go for the, in my eyes, logical choice then I would have every t

Re: [libreoffice-design] Website buttons

2011-07-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Klaus-Jürgen, all, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol schrieb: Am 17.07.2011 03:12, schrieb Marc Paré: [...] If we don't have any such page with buttons, could we have someone work out a few on a wiki page for user reference? IMO, I would prefer if these were offered up the same way as the OOo buttons.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Website buttons

2011-07-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi David, all, David Nelson schrieb: Hi Marc, On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Marc Paré wrote: I think we discussed this at some point, but I can't seem to find the discussion thread. A user has asked if we had something similar to what was offered on the OOo site[1]. [...] If we don't have

Re: [libreoffice-design] Question about UI plans

2011-07-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Alex, all, Alex B schrieb: I just asked myself, if there are any plans for a new UI? In addition to Christoph's reply: Many people are interested in improving the UI - your comment below describes part of their work. I saw several really good mockups over the past view months, but i fou

Re: [libreoffice-design] SVG logo problem (was: Packaging idea for LibreOffice software)

2011-07-12 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Nik, all, Nik schrieb: Hi again, So, after nearly half a day of fiddling with this I've uploaded a new SVG which should be fine here; http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/8/8e/ExtensionsLogo_Cleaned_110712NS.svg It seems the problem I'm having with SVGs originates from the S

Re: [libreoffice-design] Icons

2011-07-11 Thread Bernhard Dippold
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 in improv

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

2011-07-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, I don't have enough time, so anybody step in... Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] Moved the page to the Design area: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/UI_Elements and added the Design category. Please play with the page, add your ideas, categorize and sort them, so w

Re: [libreoffice-design] Packaging idea for LibreOffice software

2011-07-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Nik, all, Nik schrieb: Hi all, I've been buried under research for the last few months and I've just returned to see that I'm buried under hundreds of Emails to get through. While I'll work through them in the next few days to catch up, there was something I wanted to show you guys before I

Re: [libreoffice-design] Specifications for present UI and Graphics (was: Design Tenets Proposal)

2011-07-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Rafael, all just taking a very small part of your mail to reply, because this is a different topic that shouldn't be hidden at the end of a long mail. Rafael Rocha Daud schrieb: [...] Talking of what, who do we need to talk to to get some directions on the capabilities of our current graph

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

2011-07-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Kévin, Phil, all, Kévin PEIGNOT schrieb: Hi Bernard Yes move it somewhere else, out of your own space. I already have an idea about something to add Thanks for this good job ! Kévin Le 7 juil. 2011 23:43, "Phil Jackson" a écrit : Hi Bernhard Let's go with your proposal about moving it o

Re: [libreoffice-design] reply to existing threads when subscribed late (was: Consistent theme ...)

2011-07-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Florian, all, just recently I discovered how to avoid new threads when you want to reply to an existing mail without having subscribed before: Florian Reisinger schrieb: Sorry for starting a new thread, but I could not reply to the last mail, because I signed up later... [...] You'll hav

[libreoffice-design] [Vote] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-07-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, there have been lots of mail in this thread [1] about the advantages and disadvantaged of a recommendation for a consistent theme for screenshots covering documentation screenshots as well as marketing screenshots. During the discussion several people agreed on a proposal by Jean com

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-07-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi David, * David Nelson schrieb: [...] Personally, I feel that it would be most useful if the Design team were to keep its eye truly on the ball and work on new UI/UX designs for the LibreOffice software. That is actually the most pressing task we'd have for you guys, IMHO. As you stated sev

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-07-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Larry, Larry Gusaas schrieb: [...] If you adopt this proposal no one using a Mac will be able to make screenshots for your manuals. Your documentation is already lacking in Mac specific content, don't make it worse. The current screenshots are very different from the appearance of LibreOffic

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

2011-07-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Mirek, all Mirek M. schrieb: Hi Bernhard, 2011/7/5 Bernhard Dippold [...] I started with some thoughts on the single UI elements table. Here is the very first result: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Bedipp/UI_Elements A table with different fields containing UI elements, a

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Cover design for printed LibreOffice user guides

2011-07-05 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, Jean, all I'm really sorry, that I didn't comment on this design earlier. I had started to move something similar to the OpenSourcePress design to SVG, but my laptop decided to boil (Ubuntu fan control sucks) and all my work was gone... Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: On Thu, 2011-06-23

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-07-05 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, Sigrid, all, thanks for your mails that allow me to go a step further: Sigrid Carrera schrieb: Hi Jean, Bernhard, *all, On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 06:49:04 +1000 Jean Weber wrote: [...] Just for your information: the DE documentation team has voted for the Clearlooks theme with green2 as

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

2011-07-05 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Hi Björn, all Björn Balasz wrote: Hi Bernhard, all, Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 23:09:33 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: [...] I'd start with a gallery of the already presented mockups (perhaps with a short description of their features) and then go through

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-07-05 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, all, sorry, Sigrid, you seem right: There is no chance to get a common agreement on how screenshots should look like in a reasonable time... Jean Weber schrieb: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 13:50, Marc Paré wrote: Not sure if you read this but maybe you should take some time. Bernhard h

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi David, Jay, all, planas schrieb: Hi all, On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 23:43 +0300, David Nelson wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: [...] To me having the user guide screenshots in gray DOES have advantages FOR THE USERS: they are less likely to be distracted

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Style-Guide of LO Web-Applications

2011-06-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Robert, all, Robert Einlse wrote: > Hi Design-List, > > we are working to create an small Web-Application to manage @libreoffice > Mailforwarding-Adresses. Do we have an Style-Guide how such a > Web-Application should look like? Unfortunately we haven't managed by now to create such a style g

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, all, Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: [...] I agree with you that any colour chosen should harmonize with the positive attitude of our branding. I also agree that Green 1 is a bit aggressive. Green 2 will do; it prints well enough. Blue 2 seems a bit too bright when viewed in colour, but it

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
hi Klaus-Jürgen, * klaus-jürgen weghorn ol schrieb: Hi Bernhard, Am 25.06.2011 22:22, schrieb Bernhard Dippold: Hi Andreas, all, nobody has any opinion on this topic? Only a little thing: It is more a web banner than a logo, but very good. Andreas' request has not been for a mim

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, Sigrid, all, Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: Jean wrote: [...] My first thought is that a variation on Clearlooks (colour and perhaps font) should work very well. But I want to do some printing tests on a b/w printer before saying more. I'll get back to this list with more comments later to

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andreas, all, nobody has any opinion on this topic? Even a "I don't like it" would be a reaction... Best regards Bernhard Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke schrieb: Hi all, in the last days I get a new environment for a extension and template

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, *, Björn Balazs schrieb: Hi all, as promised here is our suggestion for a user survey we would like to comduct. As you can see, we can do these surveys in multiple languages. I tried the German one ;-) http://usability-methods.com/survey/943138fd9025419a9a34e7b23e4c6c21/ What I w

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, all, Marc Paré schrieb: Le 2011-06-24 17:34, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : Hi Marc, On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:43:22 -0400 Marc Paré wrote: [...] At this point, we should try to accommodate the comments from Jean Hollis Weber on this topic and try to find a theme OR create our own theme for

[libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Marc mentioned a certain UI theme for screenshots in the documentation team [1], there is another thread on disc...@de.libo about the best UI theme for their documentation [2], Italo wants screenshots that serve our Windows users [3] and the wiki recommends screenshots for the website

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Consistent theme for screenshots

2011-06-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi again, I'll start with my thoughts on the topic. Fell free to provide yours. Once we finished this collection and basic discussion we should move the results to a dedicated wiki page for further reference. But for the direct discussion I prefer the mailing list more: Bernhard Di

Re: [libreoffice-design] KDE and Gnome theme design for use of screenshots

2011-06-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, all, thank you very much for posting this topic here. I haven't been aware, but this seems to be something we should definitively be involved. Marc Paré schrieb: I was wondering if anyone on the design team could help out? The documentation team has adopted the following "theme" (X

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

2011-06-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, all Björn Balasz wrote: > Hi Bernhard, all, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 23:09:33 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: > [...] > > > This is a Free Software Project. As a design team, we will not need to > > > convince ourselves about this need to change the G

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

2011-06-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, all Björn Balazs schrieb: Hi all, I am a little unsatisfied with the amount of individual threads going into the direction of: "We need a new interface for LibreOffice - and it needs to look linke this...". For me they show the high interest of our team members in the UI design are

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] I just designed a quick version based on the conference logo by Nik: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibO_Extensions_Templates_Logo.png And here is the source, if you want to play with it... Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Logo for the new extension-template-repository?

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke schrieb: Hi all, in the last days I get a new environment for a extension and template repository for LibreOffice working. You can find the new site currently at http://kermit.documentfoundation.org:9089/LibreOffice-Extensions-and-Templates/ There is only a pla

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

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joed, all jlopez777 schrieb: we can host it here www.libreofficedesign.weebly.com We should try to keep as many resources as possible in the LibreOffice/TDF infrastructure. Individual contributors can't assure future commitment and they should not feel forced to keep their resources op

[libreoffice-design] [VI] Advertising space in Linux User & Developer ...

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Michael Meeks asked me to forward his mail to the design list. Anybody interested in creating a A4 advert for LibreOffice during the next week? Best regards Bernhard Original-Nachricht Hi guys, So - first, good news; Russell has offered us a free full-pa

Re: [libreoffice-design] Survey - Current Issues

2011-06-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, all, Thanks to all of you working on the survey topic! Scott, Javier: Do you think you could work with Björn's survey tool too? While he worked on this platform for quite a time now, it would be great if we could test it inside our team before we can point users, visitors and external

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Design Tenets Proposal

2011-06-19 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Scott, all thanks for bringing us back to the basics we need if we want to reach out to a general approach from individual ideas and great mockups. It's really superb to see the different UI rework proposals with lots of good ideas and proposals. But turning the multitude of them into one o

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Formalized team work structures

2011-06-19 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Philip (H), Phil (J), all, Phil Howards wrote: > Bernard, All, > > An initial draft of a wiki page prototype for new ideas is here: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/IdeaWorkflow Thanks for this structured approach for a general template. And thanks to Christoph fo

Re: [libreoffice-design] User Research

2011-06-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Björn, * Björn Balazs schrieb: Hi *, Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 17:03:04 schrieb planas: To add to your end user surveys, could Twitter help? Sending a link in a tweet about a user survey. Using the users group may get the group has problems not the ones who have none and skew the data. No

Re: [libreoffice-design] Hi everybody!

2011-06-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Isabel, all I just moderated your mail to the list - sorry for the delay. If you didn't already, please send a mail to design+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org and reply to the confirmation mail. After this you'll get all the mails sent to the list and you're able to post to the list without w

Re: [libreoffice-design] Cover design for printed LibreOffice user guides

2011-06-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, all, Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 08:14 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:35 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] I like the cover of the opensourcepress DVD box quite a lot: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

[libreoffice-design] Formalized team work structures

2011-06-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Phil, all I'm really sorry, that I don't have the time to contribute to the numbers of highly interesting and active threads here on the list. But I don't even manage to read all the mails I receive on the most important LibO lists. (I read all the mails here, even if I don't reply). This ma

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship...

2011-06-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Rafael, all, Rafael Rocha Daud schrieb: Em 07-06-2011 07:00, Nik escreveu: Also, to all our members in general... [...] Please don't be shy to add your name to the list and a picture of yourself, it's just nice to put a face to the Emails we receive and know who is saying what.[...] Well

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship...

2011-06-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
ik schrieb: Hi Bernhard, all, On 6/7/2011 7:33 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: --- snip 8<--- One point I didn't mention even if it is very present for me: When Christoph has ended his parental leave I'll ask him if we can have a similar voting on his position as lead for User Experienc

Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship...

2011-06-06 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Nik, all, Nik schrieb: [...] So, this topic has been open for a while now, and I realise it's a bit awkward for you to declare this yourself Bernhard, so I felt inclined =) And now that we have one last vote from one of our most integral (and most genuinely missed) members, I think we can

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

2011-06-04 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Vamsi, Phil, all sorry for this short reply (and top-posting), but I'm still more than busy with the discussion on how our larger community will evolve after the OpenOffice.org donation to Apache and the license shift from LGPL to Apache V 2.0 where every (free or corporate) entity (includi

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-06-02 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Nik, * I hope you don't mind that I renewed your ZIP file with the original green values from RGB that have changed slightly by converting them to CMYK and back to RGB. I added a whitespace area to the logo to avoid interference with other graphics and text around the logo. This area is

Re: [libreoffice-design] 'adopt-o-meter' for the download page

2011-06-02 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Kendy, all, Jan Holesovsky schrieb: [...] [Having said that, it still differs a bit from the original idea - I hoped to have a set of 3 images that we wouldn't have to update with every upload of new version - we would be able just to stick it next to the download links, but still, this is go

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Official LibreOffice conference logo

2011-05-31 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Charles, Nik, all Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: Bernhard, all, 2011/5/30 Bernhard Dippold Hi all, If I count correctly, the final voting shows that most of our active members prefer Nik's design 1b over the other ones. As this had to be decided very fast, we might have missed impo

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Official LibreOffice conference logo

2011-05-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
ors? And please have a look at the PNG files and their colors. I'll try to join this topic as soon as possible, but probably not before tomorrow night... Best regards Bernhard PS: For completeness the votes I counted so far: I wrote: > [...] > So these are the proposals: > &

Re: [libreoffice-design] [UX] organizing UX work on menus (was: Ribbons and Background color UX)

2011-05-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joed, Phil, all, jlopez777 schrieb: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Phil Jackson wrote: Hi JL We need to have some sort of structured approach. So any suggestions are welcome - wiki or whatever. I think a wiki could work, I can get one up. You probably know that we have a wiki exac

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

2011-05-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jay, all, planas schrieb: Bernard On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:13 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] But we should avoid to discuss details like graphical approach, menu positioning and so on: The first thing to do is defining the functionality - form will follow function when we really

Re: [libreoffice-design] Discussion via Chat/Skype

2011-05-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joed, all, jlopez777 schrieb: Hello, I would like to get to know those who are part of the team a little more as well as their ideas and views on LO and related topics. Anyone interested? At least form my side there is lot of interest for online discussion. Unfortunately there are two re

Re: [libreoffice-design] New default template for Impress?

2011-05-28 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Alex, * Alexander Wilms schrieb: Hi Christoph, thanks for all the tips and links. I have to say that this new template looks quite cool, too :)(http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Impress_Template_-_Bachianas_Brasileiras_No1_-_Green_Theme.odp). Yes, indeed. With it's colorful areas it

[libreoffice-design] [VI] [Vote] Official LibreOffice conference logo

2011-05-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
we need to go ahead. You may add a comment to the voting: I prefer it on the mailing list here in the thread, but you can add it directly at the wiki. So these are the proposals: 01 Tobias Bernard 02 Bernhard Dippold 03 Nikash Singh 1a (conference part below the logo) 04 Nikash Singh 1b (

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Charles, Okay - one of the parts where communication is crucial... Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: [...] Bernhard, 2011/5/27 Bernhard Dippold [...] There has not been any agreement on a final draft by the Design Team. Without this agreement there is no official logo. [...] So please tell

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Charles, I haven't been able to catch up with the mails in my inbox (still about 100 to read), but this has to be addressed, if nobody repiled in the meantime: Charles Schulz wrote: > [...] > I 'll use the logo as it is on the conference > pages and brochures for the moment.. You're free to

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

2011-05-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, sorry for stepping in here so late, especially as this topic has been discussed over and over again in OOo UX (Renaissance) and here in LibreOffice too. Irrelevant of the fact that some people understand the word "ribbon" as a red flag they start to rant against, we neither copy any comp

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

2011-05-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Within such a vivid team, things evolve quite fast - it's great to see what can be done here in short time frames! With this mail I want to reply to Nik and his suggestion in the thread about the mail subject [tags]. If this mail is too long for you, please scroll down to the end, rea

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: UX collaboration

2011-05-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
t such a protocol. I'd start with a mail to the website list. If this doesn't work, you might address Florian or the SC. Best regards Bernhard Cheers Marc [1] http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ Le 2011-05-18 17:21, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi Gustavo, all, welc

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Tobias, all Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Hi Tobias, all I'm sorry to be way back with my mails (still about 150 to be read). Thanks for your proposals! I'll comment on them during the next days. Here I am. Sorry again for the delay... [...] Tobias Bernard schrieb: here

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hello Charles, all, Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: Hello Bernhard, Le Mon, 23 May 2011 17:49:42 +0200, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : [...] In general I wanted to keep the visual impression of our branding: Light, open, free and following our color language. Do you think I managed to describe

Re: [libreoffice-design] Obsoleted Mac installer icon

2011-05-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Korrawit, all Korrawit Pruegsanusak schrieb: Hello all, From this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36906 The Mac installer icon is currently an OOo icon located at http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/components/setup_native/source/mac/ooo3_installer.icns So, which file shoul

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-23 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Hi Charles, all, thanks for the request - anybody has some spare time and ideas to work on this topic? Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: Hello Design Team, As you know we will have our first LibreOffice conference in October 2011 in Paris. Do you think it would be

Re: [libreoffice-design] Question about stages of Design changes to Implementation

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Phil, all You raise very important questions - but at the present state of our team and the entire community I can't provide you more than just a few thoughts... Phil Jackson schrieb: I'm interested in learning about the process for taking suggestions for changes to the Interface that hav

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, * Marc Paré schrieb: Hi Bernhard Le 2011-05-21 10:26, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : We could perhaps give guidelines as to white space suggested around the scatter so that we are all using it with a certain amount of consistency. The guidelines Nik provided on the Motif page (http

Re: [libreoffice-design] [UX] Inherited attributes on linked styles

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Ricardo, * RGB ES schrieb: Here I am again with some of my draft ideas about Writer ;) Linked styles are one of those features that makes Writer Really Great: to set up a chain of styles that inherits some characteristics from a "parent" style helps a lot when you build a complex document. Bu

Re: [libreoffice-design] voting on Visual Design tag (was:Re: Adding [UX] and [VI] tags to mail subjects?)

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, all, While [UX] is quite universal understood, I want you to think (and decide) about a short tag for Visual Identity / Branding Design. Marc mentioned the necessity for newcomers to understand the tag, but I think most of us agree to keeping as much room for a descriptive subject. P

Re: [libreoffice-design] new team member (was:[VI] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference)

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joed, welcome to our team! jlopez777 schrieb: Hello all, I am new here so please forgive me if I am not using proper form. Just a small correction: If you want to start a new topic, just send a mail to the list without replying to an existing one. This avoids the mail clients to handle y

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Presenting new piece for publication

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, * drew schrieb: On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 11:36 -0400, drew wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:58 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi Drew, all drew schrieb: Hi, Just two remarks (not to be taken as requests to change, but only as input - perhaps you already took them into account) about

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Presenting new piece for publication

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
sent too early... Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] Could you imagine that the source of this pamphlet might be helpful for others working on LibreOffice pamphlets in future? In this case uploading it to the wiki as well might be a good idea. Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] Presenting new piece for publication

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, all drew schrieb: Hi, If you look at the picture of the NA-DVD kit Tim posted the other day note the small pamphlet inserted inside the cover: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Na-dvd-lightscribe.jpg It is the pamphlet at the left side, isn't it? The new design is much better!

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, all Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: [...] I would certainly appreciate some guidance on this. Would also be nice for some graphic artist to design a book cover for the user guides. My own efforts are typically a bit... amateurish. Although I'm sure people don't buy the books for their cov

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-05-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, * Marc Paré schrieb: Le 2011-05-16 16:24, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi Jean, * Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: Thanks, Bernhard, for moving this request to the proper list. What is the Motif you mention? I am not familiar with this term. It's a graphical element we want to be us

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

2011-05-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
hard Cheers, Jaron On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Bernhard Dippold< bernh...@familie-dippold.at> wrote: Hi all, would you like to add special tags to the subjects of your mails to show even more clearly, if the topic related to User Experience [UX] or Visual Identity / Branding D

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Tobias, all I'm sorry to be way back with my mails (still about 150 to be read). Thanks for your proposals! I'll comment on them during the next days. Best regards Bernhard Tobias Bernard schrieb: here's my proposal for a conference logo. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Libreoff

Re: [libreoffice-design] Interest in UX

2011-05-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Mahmadul, (CC'ing you because I had to moderate your mail to the list) mahmudul islam tapu schrieb: i want to join design team.i am interested to: User experience User support and training While User support and training is not the direct focus of our team (you might join the marketing mai

Re: [libreoffice-design] 'adopt-o-meter' for the download page

2011-05-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Kendy, all, I already spent a few thoughts on this great idea... Jan Holesovsky schrieb: Hi, For the marketing of 3.4.0, and to visually stress the meaning of http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/05/13/announcing-a-new-beta-release/ we would need a design of an 'adopt-o-meter' for the

Re: [libreoffice-design] UX collaboration

2011-05-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Gustavo, all, welcome to our team! Gustavo Gawryszewski schrieb: Hello, My name is Gustavo Gawryszewski, I'm the founder of Tactio Interaction Design, which is a brazilian interaction design and usability consultancy and local leader of the IxDA Rio de Janeiro chapter. With such a backgr

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

2011-05-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jared, all, one of the mails still marked as to-be-replied-to, but never found the time - sorry! Jared Meidal schrieb: Because I like the “big picture” I would like to make some comments to help me, and perhaps others, formulate the trajectory and philosophy for the UX future of LibreOffice.

Re: [libreoffice-design] [VI] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi M. King Duck schrieb: Bernhard, I have the name that I do because that was what I used when I first signed up for GMail. I don't mind your eMail address at all, I just prefer to have serious discussions with people I can talk to by name. I'm not too comfortable giving out my real name on

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

2011-05-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, would you like to add special tags to the subjects of your mails to show even more clearly, if the topic related to User Experience [UX] or Visual Identity / Branding Design [VI]? This might make it easier to browse the list for topics you are interested in. Do you think this makes

Re: [libreoffice-design] [UX] Bug 37245 - Make 2nd column selection more intuitive for unchecked "Evenly distribute text"

2011-05-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Rainer, Rainer Bielefeld schrieb: Hi, this is a very particular Design question, but may be you can help? In it's really unintuitive that there is no way to get into second column. May be there are altrenatives? I added a comment to the

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-05-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, * Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: Thanks, Bernhard, for moving this request to the proper list. What is the Motif you mention? I am not familiar with this term. It's a graphical element we want to be used in LibreOffice branding: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Gallery_Motif It can be

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Cover designs for printed copies of LibreOffice user guides

2011-05-15 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jean, all moving this message to the design list where I think it belongs. Please follow up there! just one short point from my side: I'd propose to use the Motif on the book covers. Best regards Bernhard Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: When I published the printed version of "Getting Starte

Re: [libreoffice-design] Gallery of Visual Elements [was: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Are there icons...]

2011-05-15 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marc, Marc Paré schrieb: Hi Bernhard Le 2011-05-11 17:56, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Thanks for pointing here, as we haven't been able to finish the work on our galleries containing graphical resources for internal and external visual representation of LibreOffice:

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Are there icons and banners to use on the documentation blog?

2011-05-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi John, all I can't work on the topic at the moment - anybody else? Perhaps some brainstorming about the questions I already posted... John Shabanowitz schrieb: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Bernhard Dippold< bernh...@familie-dippold.at> wrote: [...] We need to

Re: [libreoffice-design] designing a logo for the LibreOffice conference

2011-05-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
he points I mentioned below (as you didn't cut off the rest of the mail, I can refer there too)? Perhaps we could use a group of three or four of the Scatter motif triangles (as outlines?) for the consistent logo part? Just an idea... Best regards Bernhard On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:3

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