Re: [libreoffice-projects] Re: [libreoffice-design] Notebookbar out of Experimental

2018-11-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On 09/11/2018 11:58, Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote: > I do agree to move the Notebookbar out of experimental. > The latest updates on the Tabbed Toolbar in the master branch improved both > the usability and the look & feel making it (in my opinion) a really useful > and nice feature to

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-design] Share 3D models in the new web site for templates and extensions

2016-12-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Heiko, On 17/12/16 10:17, Heiko Tietze wrote: > Impress can handle > > JSON - GL Transmission Format > DAE - COLLADA > KMZ - Keyhole Markup language zipped I'm not a huge fan of making the Collada / GLTF stuff extraordinarily prominent until there is better GL support everywhere,

[libreoffice-design] LibreColor-HLC palette ...

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Christoph, On 13/12/16 06:26, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: >> Von: "Michael Meeks" <michael.me...@collabora.com> Of course, if >> you can move on the licensing: ie. giving a license that is >> compatible with our goals as a Free-Software projec

Re: [libreoffice-design] Blog post about versioning

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On 30/11/16 12:55, Heiko Tietze wrote: > started as input for the Sharepoint version control the proposal is > now more general about versioning. I fear that we're promoting this (AFAIK horrible) internal in-file versioning feature. I'm unsure that we want to do anything to make that

Re: [libreoffice-design] pdf import design docs?

2016-10-05 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Larry, First - really great to have you looking at that code ! =) On 10/05/2016 04:10 PM, Larry Evans wrote: > I'm trying to understand how the pdf import code works. > I've tried looking at the code; however, that's hard to > follow; hence, I was hoping there was some sort of design

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Icons + legends for Slide Transition selector for 5.1 ...

2015-11-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jay, On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 18:12 +0400, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote: > Just to update you that Andreas and I will be working on it. Wonderful news =) thanks for that ! > Would be useful to sort the transition list (tdf#87613), with None at > the beginning and Random at the bottom,

[libreoffice-design] Re: Icons + legends for Slide Transition selector for 5.1 ...

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Meeks
With some more gerrit'y action: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/19913 Encourage ValueSet to render a legend as well as an icon. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/19914 Shorten transition group names to make them better legends. It now looks more like the attached; hopefully

[libreoffice-design] Icons for Slide Transition selector for 5.1 ...

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I've switched the slide transition selector to something based on icons; actually I'm concurrently looking at adding rendering to the ValueSet to add the labels underneath too and prettify the selection. As you can see my already terrible artistic abilities are not

[libreoffice-design] Re: Icon theme licenses

2015-10-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 23:52 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote: > > I'm bringing up this issue as the designer of the Kalahari icon theme for > > LibreOffice, Mariano Gaudix, would like to upstream his work, as he has been > > actively working on it and had previously

Re: [libreoffice-design] Welcome graphics for the Startcenter in 4.2

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 00:33 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Mateusz Zasuwik wrote (14-10-13 23:01) Guys, are you serious? Currently Start Center for LO 4.2 is horrible! Is I rather imagine this was done by a GSOC student based on a design provided by the UX team :-) if the result is horrible,

[libreoffice-design] hand drawn boxes ? ...

2013-06-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I just got a set of nice documents from Artur created via: http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/samples And I love the balance between authenticity and crispness of the boxes they use ;-) I guess, algorithmically we could try to detect and randomly

Re: [libreoffice-design] RE: New name for Sifr theme?

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 08:59 +, Issa Alkurtass wrote: Symbolic is fine. Can't say I didn't expect this. Although to be fair Tango is also a video messaging app among other software ;) IMHO the important thing is that those who designed and did all the work on the theme get to

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Articles about LibreOffice design process

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michel, On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 01:10 +0200, Michel Renon wrote: I inform you that I wrote a list of 9 articles about LibreOffice, specially about the design process. The first starts here : http://mr-consultant.net/blog/2013/04/thoughts-about-design-process-part-1-the-context/ Some

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-design] Send Feedback Option

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 19:53 +0100, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: I like it! And I have some proposals for additions. Hah :-) so - JFYI - when people click on send-feedback, we now have more details about their systems: the exact version of the software they're running, the platform,

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] New icons in Tango

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stefan, On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 13:03 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: about a week ago, Michael (M.) noticed on ux-advise that some icons in LibreOffice's Tango theme had been replaced. Well, I replaced those and didn't do the sensible thing and discuss these changes first... Heh

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice] Fwd: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37996

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Imacat, This really belongs on the design list; please reply only to there, unless you have a patch or are seriously considering doing the work; as/when you are committed there - then: libreoffice-ux-adv...@lists.freedesktop.org is a better forum. My personal take is

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

2011-07-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Alex, On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 22:34 +0100, Alex B wrote: I'd realy love to see a darker application background in Writer. As you know, the appearance of LibreOffice depends on the used GTK Theme. Because most GTK Themes are light and bright, the contrast between the application background

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice] icon in GNOME3

2011-04-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Florian, On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 12:34 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I just got notice that the LibO icon in GNOME3 seems to be the OOo logo, see http://derstandard.at/1297821927182/Ansichtssache-GNOME3---Details-der-neuen-Desktop-Generation?sap=2_slideNumber=8_seite= Anyone from GNOME

Re: [libreoffice-design] General relationship between coders and designers (was: [PUSHED]fdo#31251...)

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bernhard, On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:11 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: At first I want to thank Sébastien not only for his work, but also for being open to the discussion here, even if this means to delay the final inclusion of his patch. Agreed - we all think Sebastien rocks ;-)

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

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Sebastien, On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:09 +0100, Sébastien Le Ray wrote: this simple shadow patch has generated a long discussion on Libreoffice-design. Some people don't like the color, some people don't like the amount of blur, some people want no shadow at all, some people want a 4 borders

[libreoffice-design] easy hacks ...

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Someone apart from Christophe (very kindly) sent me a link to their set of UI tweaks that they had put together, and I said I'd turn it into easy hacks. Somehow I lost that mail, and - occasionally hunt for it, but - it is no-where ;-) Can whomever it was

[libreoffice-design] [REVIEWED] New mimetype icons - need patch review for -3-3

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Thorsten, On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:57 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: please find a set of patches to bring the new mimetype icons into LibO-3-3 here: How much value there is in trying to review large binary diffs I don't know ;-) But the risk is really low here anyway - at worst we

[libreoffice-design] Re: [Libreoffice] Minor Design fixes - Little hacks to improve the User Interface

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 00:01 -0800, Crazy H Studio - Mike Houben wrote: the User Interface hase a lot of little problems, where some things are not in place. This could be an button not aligned, 2px to far on the right. Find things where the developer didn't do the programming right. Little

[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: new features page ...

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, So - this thread turned amusing, before I could even get to it. Perhaps one of our problems is a workload, and hence response time mismatch between people. On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 22:55 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote: great suggestion. It seems it pays off to bore you with all this