Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-30 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Christoph,

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Christoph Noack
christ...@dogmatux.com wrote:
 Hi Ivan,

 thanks for the cleanup! And ...

Thank you for the valuable constructive feedback!

 [...]
 And a bit more specific:

      * LibreOffice Banner:
              * Nice refinement, especially the slight emboss effect for
                the logo works great. Also the different shaped gradient
                works very well ...

I was inspired by your Impress template where you had a lighter
gradient. Although gradients will probably never go out of fashion,
the inner shadow is a more contemporary design effect, just as gloss
was trendy in the mid 2000s. I think it's a useful effect to give the
LibreOffice logo a more modern feel. It also gives a greater sense of
depth and sophistication to an otherwise simple gradient.

              * I am only unsure whether the homogeneous background
                pattern is still able to repeat the document icon
                triangle idea. (It still reminds me of the stylish
                elevator in You Only Live Twice.).

You're probably right. I was trying to experiment by using the pattern
as a texture and it is a bit too repetitive - I thought a subtle
gradient could ameliorate that, but I'm not sure if it works. I like
what you did in the presentation template - just having a few
repetitions in a triangular arrangement at the top-right and
bottom-left edges - that might be a better solution.

              * However, I really this style - should this be the basis
                for the final LibO branding? (Without having any
                deadlines in mind).

I worked with the assumption that the initial LibO branding elements
(namely the document foundation symbol and the green color) are fixed
and aren't open to change.

The document foundation icon is fantastic because it can be applied
straight away to icons. Although the OOo gulls are a great branding
element, they are an abstraction that is more difficult to translate
to icons. That said, maybe LibreOffice could do with a secondary
branding element which is more organic (i.e. inspired by nature) as
opposed to the document segment (I'm thinking of branding
material/motifs for start centre/about screen etc)

      * Icons: Just a question - is the lighter region intended?
        Personally, it irritates me a bit (it is hard for my brain to
        come up with the 3D equivalent). To me, the first draft felt a
        bit better (except the slight gradient in the invers-S-element
        in the Draw icon).

Yes, it is intended. It's just a little optional extra I was playing
with. The gradients themselves could be made more subtle (this would,
of course, require the colors to change).

      * Colors: Blue, green are great. For the orange, yellow and purple
        color, the lightest shadings seem to be different from its base
        color (e.g. the lightest orange looks a green on my computer).
        I'm sure you already invested some time, so this is intended,
        or? So, how to proceed? May we start to iterate the current LibO
        colors? Or do you think it might be helpful to further work on
        your file? At your service, so to say ;-)

That was the intention for all colors, but again, it's something I was
trying out. I think the lighter ('accent') colors add some zest to the
icons (and that includes the greenish yellow), but I haven't had the
time to try an extensive array of options myself. Anyone else is more
than welcome to suggest alternatives.

This icon design is very simple - the outline uses the first two
colors, and the inner part uses the last two colors, so it's a good
test of the color scheme. Again, I have worked with assumptions that
the general colors themselves are fixed (broadly speaking, blue for
Writer, green for Calc...). I think it's important to make these
assumptions explicit since I am not sure exactly what is already set
and what is open to debate. Plus, I find it easier to work with some
pre-defined constraints :)

Regards,
Ivan.

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Re: [tdf-discuss] [UI] Splash screen

2010-10-30 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-)

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:52, Christoph Noack
christoph.no...@documentfoundation.org wrote:
 So I wonder whether there is some interest to form some kind of interest
 group or even a dedicated UX team. At least, there might be better
 places than [tdf-discuss] ... or?

+1 definitely... IMHO, a UX team and interest group would be a good idea.

David Nelson

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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread jonathon
On 10/29/2010 07:59 PM, Robert Derman wrote:

  I would like to see Writer add a Typewriter Mode that turns off ALL the 
 automation of Styles and lets
 you do a totally manual formatted document.

if that is all you want, why not just use vi, or emaacs?

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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread jonathon
On 10/29/2010 11:22 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:

  On the other hand, tables rarely repeat themselves:

How repeatable tables are, depends upon the user.  I, for one, wish that
there were table styles. (I have a dozen or so documents with 500+
tables in them, all of which need to have the same presentation markup.)

 – partial character styles (and maybe partial paragraph styles): for example, 
 Strong (or accented) might simply defined as whatever
 paragraph style and font styles are already applied + Bold, and note
 might be defined as 85% of height in grey;

if you are requesting what I think you are, then clearer documentation
is what is required --- at least for styles used in writer.

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[tdf-discuss] Re: UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré

Le 2010-10-30 06:42, jonathon a écrit :

On 10/29/2010 07:59 PM, Robert Derman wrote:


  I would like to see Writer add a Typewriter Mode that turns off ALL the 
automation of Styles and lets

  you do a totally manual formatted document.

if that is all you want, why not just use vi, or emaacs?

jonathon


Well, I think this line of discussion is all in trying to add 
functionality to the suite. I would too welcome a Typewriter Mode. 
This would only be a very non-feature mode and turned on/off with a 
button in the menu.


Using vi or emaacs would still need learning a new set of commands.

Or we could all retreat back to pencil and paper. Calamus or quill 
anyone? LOL


Marc


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[tdf-discuss] webdav

2010-10-30 Thread jef peeraer
can someone shed a light on the webdav support in libreoffice. i use 
this a lot with my openoffice.org (and with a secured site), but when 
the webdav site is protected, you need to supply the authentication in a 
popup. it would be nice if this could be supplied in the URL of the 
document. can i vote for such a feature ?


jef peeraer

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Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-30 Thread Graham Lauder
On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 12:17:20 Christoph Noack wrote:

Hi Ivan,

Sorry this took so long, having problems with the list's spam filters, hanks 
Florian for fixing that.

First let me say that these are superb with a couple of minor things that I've 
put inline 

 Hi Ivan,
 
 thanks for the cleanup! And ...
 
 Am Samstag, den 30.10.2010, 11:01 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.:
  Hi all,
  
  The number of proposals has grown considerably enough to (IMO) justify
  their own page, so I have moved the proposals to the Branding section
  of the marketing wiki:
  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding/Mimetype_Icons/Prop
  osals
  
  There's a link to the new page on the Marketing Ideas wiki page.
 
 ... just a few words concerning your recent work: Absolutely great!
 
 And a bit more specific:
 
   * LibreOffice Banner:
   * Nice refinement, especially the slight emboss effect for
 the logo works great. Also the different shaped gradient
 works very well ...
   * I am only unsure whether the homogeneous background
 pattern is still able to repeat the document icon
 triangle idea. (It still reminds me of the stylish
 elevator in You Only Live Twice.).
   * However, I really this style - should this be the basis
 for the final LibO branding? (Without having any
 deadlines in mind).
 
 
   * Colors: Blue, green are great. For the orange, yellow and purple
 color, the lightest shadings seem to be different from its base
 color (e.g. the lightest orange looks a green on my computer).

I have the same colour issue as well and additionally the impress icon 
lightest colour seems to have a bit much red in it.  looks good in icon but 
not so in isolation.  The base icon also has a similar issue.

 I'm sure you already invested some time, so this is intended,
 or? So, how to proceed? May we start to iterate the current LibO
 colors? Or do you think it might be helpful to further work on
 your file? At your service, so to say ;-)

I'm also not so sure about the application symbols following OOo so closely.  
I do like the ones in Clio's suggestion however, how they would mix with 
your(Ivan's) framing would be interesting.  However I will also state that 
there is probably equally good argument to retain a Familial connection, so 
I'm ambivalent myself, just putting it out there for discussion.  

As a general comment, I am impressed as hell with the logo and the Docu bug, 
it's simple, strong, indicative, unique and instantly recognisable.  If I had 
one criticism is that the Docu bug would be better as a dark grey rather than 
black.  The black on white background is a little harsh.  I note that this has 
been obvious to the creators as well because the Docu bug always seems to be 
displayed on light grey BG which diffuses  that harshness.  A CMYK value of 
around 10.0.0.44. looks good and from a visual marketing POV has a more 
sophisticated reliable and modern feel.  I've done an example which I'll put 
up on the wiki as soon as it allows me, which at it's present pace will be 
next week sometime!  

Cheers
GL

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-10-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Charles-H. Schulz wrote:

We initially agreed not to request the assignment of copyright for code
contributions, and we can only witness that it's been so far the right
decision: Many developers have joined us and contribute


Honestly, I believe new developers joined because the bar for 
contribution was lowered to the point that anyone who can use a text 
editor can contribute to the code, even if he is unable to build 
LibreOffice. The Easy Hacks were a nice way to attract new people. Of 
course the paperwork reduction may have helped too, but I don't see it 
as the most effective improvement.


3) ... In the CVS (and even SVN) there was a real hierarchy. ... 
BTW; LibreOffice uses Git, which is a distributed SCM.


So did (and still does) OpenOffice.org with Mercurial, another 
distributed SCM. But I don't believe this is relevant.



4) the notion that we cannot change license because we don't have
copyright assignment needs to be put to rest once and for all today.
There is a very simple explanation with respect to this issue; ask any
lawyer and he/she will confirm this: Sun/Oracle has licensed the OOo
code under LGPL v3. They could have put LGPL v3 or later or LGPL v3
or +. But they didn't. And that's what makes impossible to turn OOo
into a different license unless the sole copyright owner agrees to
change it, which is unlikely with Oracle.


Well, if you take for granted that cooperation between Oracle and the 
Document Foundation will forever be impossible then you are right. But 
who knows what will happen in months, years? If Oracle changes attitude 
and wants to discuss licensing with the Document Foundation, the 
Document Foundation will be in the awkward position of representing 
the LibreOffice developers only in theory, because any agreement would 
then need to be confirmed with every developer; while with a copyright 
agreement/assignment in place, the Document Foundation could effectively 
represent a measurable percentage of the codebase, and its opinion be 
weighed accordingly.


Best regards,
  Andrea Pescetti.

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[tdf-discuss] Re: [UI] Splash screen

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré

Le 2010-10-30 09:38, Graham Lauder a écrit :

On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 11:52:42 Christoph Noack wrote:

Hi Ivan, Mirek, all!


http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Projects/Start-up_
process


So I wonder whether there is some interest to form some kind of interest
group or even a dedicated UX team. At least, there might be better
places than [tdf-discuss] ... or?


Heh  We really need to do separate lists, this all on one list is becoming a
bloody nightmare, but +1 to a UX team.



Cheers,
Christoph


cheers
GL




Yes it would be nice. Quite a lot of good ideas though.

Marc


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Re: [tdf-discuss] [UI] Splash screen

2010-10-30 Thread Radoslav

 Hi everyone,

The splash screen looks very nice (Good job Mirek). My problem here is 
that, the splash screen is sometimes not needed/wanted by the end user 
(myself).
For example, when I open a document (.odt), the splash screen shows up 
and it disturbs my work flow. Since the programs starts fast (2 s). 
There should an option to disable spashscreen or have it start after 
timed amount.


Another alternative, which I thought right now, is to have a small pop 
up on the screen corner with the progress bar. This way the user can be 
notified about the start up progress and not have the entire screen 
taken over by the splash screen.


Regards,

On 10-10-28 12:42 PM, Mirek M. wrote:

Hi everyone,
Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen:
http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/.
The Start Center would lose the standard chrome of LibO and stand as a very
lightweight application that opens while LibO loads, removing the need for a
splash screen.
For individual applications (where the Start Center is skipped over), there
would be an undistracting notification that the app is opening.



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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Michael, everyone,
Here's an experimental mockup of how style editing could work:
http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/citrus-editing-styles/
 http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/citrus-editing-styles/It
changes a few things in an effort to be less daunting and more
comprehensible to newbies. All the old features should still be there,
though, just under different terminology.

2010/10/30 Michel Gagnon mic...@mgagnon.net


  Le 2010-10-28 17:45, RGB ES a écrit :

 ...

 While direct formatting *seems* to be good on two page school reports,
 it is a nightmare when you need to create complex and well structured
 documents.
 Writer have a good tradition of tools that helps the build of complex
 documents (styles, styles and more styles!).
 What I would like to see instead of more direct formatting tools, is a
 redesign of the way styles are defined to easy the learning curve of
 new users.
 Relying on styles is Writer's trademark. I think we need to give even
 more power to this trademark instead of going the route of MSWord.
 ...

 If you only teach your students to use direct formatting, they will
 only use direct formatting afterwards: If you want to teach them how
 to properly use Writer, you need to teach them the correct use of
 styles since the beginning. I know, it is not easy, but it is more
 difficult to correct bad habits afterwards...
 BTW, tabs inside paragraph styles makes a lot more sense than tabs as
 formatting characters...

 After all, *tab stops as direct formatting must be avoided on properly
 formatted documents* ...



 I am puzzled as to why you want to avoid any direct formatting. I am a
 power user and a great fan of style sheets; yet, as far as I am concerned,
 the great strength of style sheets is when something needs to be repeatable.
 So I will define paragraph styles, bullet styles and heading styles because
 similar paragraph configurations will appear more than once in my
 document. Likewise for legends or equations in a technical document. On the
 other hand, tables rarely repeat themselves: number and width of columns
 differ, some have text, others have numbers, etc. So a given style used in
 Table 1 won't be useful anywhere else in my document.
 So what do I do? I define a style for the table title and a font style for
 column headers and for the content. However, I typically will add tabs
 manually.

 Still it should be easier to understand how stylesheets work and how they
 are written. And some functions should be added. Amongst improvements I
 would like to see are:
 – better interactions between bullet styles and regular paragraph styles
 (or maybe a clearer explanation on how both work);
 – partial character styles (and maybe partial paragraph styles): for
 example, Strong (or accented) might simply defined as whatever
 paragraph style and font styles are already applied + Bold, and note
 might be defined as 85% of height in grey;
 – links and dependencies between styles that work all the time (right now,
 it is guess work);
 – we should also be able to add a condition to an existing style, not just
 a new one;
 – the possibility of having a paragraph style followed by another one
 should also work within cells, so the style used for column header would be
 automatically followed by the one used for column content, for example;
 – last but not least, page styles should be optionally linked to a base
 style (i.e. margins of my first page could then be automatically modified
 from the margins of my standard page).

 For compatibility, the same stylesheets should exist in Impress, with added
 features linked to paragraph animation. Imagine the ease of transfer if a
 standard paragraph -- bullet 1 level 2 paragraph would contain all the
 following:
 – in Writer: font: Bodoni 10 pt; bullet: n-dash ; indents: 1p6, -1p6, 0;
 spaces: 5pt, 0.95 li, 0;
 – in Calc:...
 – in Impress: font Helvetica Bold 16pt blue ; bullet: n-dash gold ;
 indents: 3p, -3p, 0; spaces: 12pt, 1.1li, 0; visual effect: slide from left
 in 2 seconds...

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Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-30 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sunday 31 Oct 2010 02:33:03 Graham Lauder wrote:

 As a general comment, I am impressed as hell with the logo and the Docu
 bug, it's simple, strong, indicative, unique and instantly recognisable. 
 If I had one criticism is that the Docu bug would be better as a dark grey
 rather than black.  The black on white background is a little harsh.  I
 note that this has been obvious to the creators as well because the Docu
 bug always seems to be displayed on light grey BG which diffuses  that
 harshness.  A CMYK value of around 10.0.0.44. looks good and from a visual
 marketing POV has a more sophisticated reliable and modern feel.  I've
 done an example which I'll put up on the wiki as soon as it allows me,
 which at it's present pace will be next week sometime!
 
 Cheers
 GL
Finally on the wiki

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeLogoMod_yo.png

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Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-30 Thread Drew Jensen
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 08:50 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote:
 Finally on the wiki
 
 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeLogoMod_yo.png 

Nice - I like the softer feel..

Drew


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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread Robert Derman

Carlos Martinez wrote:



Robert Derman skrev 2010-10-29 21:59:

Jussi Silvonen wrote:

2010/10/29 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com


Writer have a good tradition of tools that helps the build of complex
documents (styles, styles and more styles!).
What I would like to see instead of more direct formatting tools, is a
redesign of the way styles are defined to easy the learning curve of
new users.
I may be odd in this but at times all the beautiful automation in 
Styles just seems to get in the way!  I would like to see Writer add 
a Typewriter Mode that turns off ALL the automation of Styles and 
lets you do a totally manual formatted document.  Is there anyone 
else that agrees with me on this? 



Hi, if you open the Help document (e.g. in Writer) and look after  
Manual or automatic formating  you could fine how to write a ducument 
as if you are using a typerwriter

 My best  regards Carlos
Well, I guess I have now run afoul of the asked for a feature that was 
already there thing.  I have seen this so often over the years that it 
tells me that we probably should have a copy of a users manual that is 
part of the download package and something very obvious just after 
install that leads users to it.  OOo/LO is certainly not alone in this, 
most commercial/proprietary software today is equally remiss in this 
area, even MS Windows 7 itself is sorely lacking in the area of a users 
manual.  After a lot of Googling I finally did manage to find and 
download one.  Thing is it should have been on the MS Win 7 upgrade 
disk, and it should have been preloaded on this laptop when I bought it. 

Actually the fact that even the mighty Microsoft sucks in this area 
should give us an incentive to do better than them, or is it they? 
Whatever, perhaps we could get one of the people who wrote good users 
manuals for OOo to contribute one to be placed in the download package.  
I seem to remember a very good one by a lady by the name of Solveg as an 
example of what I mean.


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[tdf-discuss] Non-removable extensions

2010-10-30 Thread Andy Brown


Who had the bright idea to require the non-removable extensions in 
LibreOffice?  This, IMO, is totally uncalled for.  This is a great way 
to lose users.


Andy

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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread Michel Gagnon

Le 2010-10-30 06:49, jonathon a écrit :

On 10/29/2010 11:22 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:


  On the other hand, tables rarely repeat themselves:

How repeatable tables are, depends upon the user.  I, for one, wish that
there were table styles. (I have a dozen or so documents with 500+
tables in them, all of which need to have the same presentation markup.)

I see. Still, we currently have a problem in that styles for tables work 
relatively well providing we don't create a table.
And with the kind of situation Jonathon describes, I think we not only 
need styles that work well within a table (i.e. header for table line 1 
followed by table body for other lines), but we also need table styles 
or, to put it clearly, styles OF tables. So one would call, for example, 
table style 1 and obtain a table with 5 columns of 5, 6, 6, 6, 10 picas, 
user-defined borders and spacings, user-chosen styles in each cell, etc. 
I see the programming challenge but the wonderful possibilities.

– partial character styles (and maybe partial paragraph styles): for example, Strong (or 
accented) might simply defined as whatever

  paragraph style and font styles are already applied + Bold, and note
  might be defined as 85% of height in grey;

if you are requesting what I think you are, then clearer documentation
is what is required --- at least for styles used in writer.

jonathon
I have been reminded it already exists (thanks Marc). But I also 
remember the last time I used character styles, they didn't always work 
the same way. For example, sometimes I simply got + Bold, while at 
other times, it seems the entire character styling information was 
remembered (so it would also change font, character stretch, colour...). 
That was back on OOo version 3.1.x or 3.2 on Windows XP.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-30 Thread Michel Gagnon

Le 2010-10-30 15:47, Mirek M. a écrit :

Hi Michael, everyone,
Here's an experimental mockup of how style editing could work:
http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/citrus-editing-styles/
  It
changes a few things in an effort to be less daunting and more
comprehensible to newbies. All the old features should still be there,
though, just under different terminology.



It looks nice. The approach, however, is similar to one that might be 
used in Ms Office 2003. There are two possible problems with it:
- It is harder to define many styles at once this way than in the 
traditional dialogue box. On the other hand, the visual approach you 
have is great for fine tuning or for adding one or two styles to an 
existing document.
- There has to be a way to define, and more importantly to see the 
specifications that are linked vs those that are not, those that are 
defined in relative vs absolute terms. In your example, I should see 
that Heading 5 is defined using Heading 6 as base style and that it will 
be followed by Body Text. I should also see that the only elements 
modified from base style are typeface (+Bold) and line (-Underline).



Groups vs linking a style to a style.
I actually see it as two very different concepts. We already know how a 
style may be linked to another base style. But apart from that, I see 
groups such as: styles used for the main document, styles for annexes 
(typically smaller type)


You also suggest that bundled styles should now be deletable. I think it 
is a great idea, at least for all non-essential styles. In other words, 
it might be easier for the casual user to see by default the following: 
Body text, Headings 1 to 4.


Regards,

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Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net

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[tdf-discuss] AUTO: AUTO: Away from office (returning 11/05/2010)

2010-10-30 Thread Scott Denham

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[tdf-discuss] Re: AUTO: AUTO: Away from office (returning 11/05/2010)

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré

Le 2010-10-31 00:05, Scott Denham a écrit :


I am out of the office until 11/05/2010.

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Eeek! Scott is out of the office for a while and left his auto-answer on.

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