Hi Olivier,
On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 12:35 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote:
In summary, the position of the Save in ODF format and Save in MS
Office format should be inverted when saving non-ODF files.
My expectation is that clicking the bottom right button will continue
to do what I already
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 22:24 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
Michael Meeks wrote (19-12-13 21:24)
* Pending Action Items:
+ need design for copying styles between templates (Cor Nouws/other UX?)
cf.
http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01658.html
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 00:53 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
I hope we'll be bundling Carlito [1] and Caladea [2], Google's metric
equivalents to Calibri and Cambria, and replacing Calibri and Cambria
with these fonts by default.
I believe Caolan was looking into that.
I'm also wondering
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:37 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
Quick queries, dangerous future ... :)
No real urgency. However - I think we need a good design for
integrating cloud storage into LibreOffice in a way that doesn't just
ram more cruft horrible interactions into the 'File' menu, and
Hi there,
Just a quick query; I rather like the idea of turning the 'File' menu
into rather a more advanced / full-screen/window way of popping up
details about the document, and eventually providing a more intuitive
place to anchor - document statistics, embedding of images / multimedia
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 01:48 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
Also, could you upload some screenshots of the current
work-in-progress version?
:-)
I noticed that, in your mockups, it's not indicated that one has to
swipe right/left to get to the next/previous slide. It'd be great if a
little
On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 13:32 +, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos wrote:
Michaels Meeks pushed now I changed that I did about the auto closing
brackets, parenthesis and braces.
Oh, this is lovely! Thanks so much, Marcos and Michael! Are we too
late to include the change in 4.1?
No
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 19:12 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote:
I agree — the best interface is no interface. As known as “just works”.
:-)
We should consider other users who use many computers with LO and one
remote and so on.
Of course, it should be possible. Just as having 2x
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 02:29 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Impress_remote#GSoC_2013_proposal
It would be great to hear your opinions and suggestions.
If you do not want to flood discussion threads you can send me a
private message.
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 01:00 +0300, Artur Dryomov wrote:
I didn’t test any audio or video slideshows so I cannot be sure how do
they work. I’ll do it later, that part could be tricky…
AFAIK they don't work ;-) or at least, I think streaming video to the
mobile device to play is likely to
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
Hi Mirek,
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:49 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
Compared to competitors, LibreOffice is lagging behind in terms of UX,
and, unfortunately, it seems like relatively little development is
happening in that area, often relegated to GSoC projects and Easy
Hacks, which don't always
Hi there,
https://www.facebook.com/documentfoundation/posts/552385418139358
Is encouraging I guess; it might help to enable this as an experimental
feature in master so people can play with it ?
Or would it be better to provide / distribute a .zip file from your
repository that
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 14:43 +, Issa Alkurtass wrote:
While I would love to have the icons in the master, I think
it's still a bit early for that.
Fair enough :-)
What's currently been done is Writer's standard toolbars (default
view) icons, and I'm still changing them repeatedly
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:24 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
I have a cunning idea. Since one of the difficulties on this is to reach
out to the actual users of this functionality, I'd like to remove the
4th check box from the current pivot table data source selection dialog
in 4.1 (and maybe
On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 20:18 +0100, Mirek M. wrote:
Here are some additional EasyHacks, stemming from my discussion with Kendy:
Incidentally - this is really important work ! :-) we always need new
easy-hacks, and to have lots in the area of UI improvement is really a
great way to get
Hi guys,
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 19:56 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
Note: I will abide by whatever decision is reached
The ESC discussed this precise issue in the past; and made a decision
not to include the Ubuntu font, and because of that, this is the status
quo today. No doubt
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 17:11 +0100, Alexander Wilms wrote:
A quick fix would be to replace the vector graphics with pngs for the
time being. Should I do that?
I'll get to fixing this for 4.0 - so I wouldn't worry :-)
Thanks !
Michael.
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+ Fridrich, Stephan, Andras, Joel, Caolan, Markus, Norbert,
Bjoern, Thorsten, Ahmad, Astron, Michael M, Eike, Michael S,
Petr, Cedric.
* Completed Action Items
+ need to rename the MIGRATED flag and unwind / test re-migration
(Michael)
Hi there,
I had a quick read; it -looks- rather low-touch - and the graphic
effect is really pleasant; so I'd be well up for merging this.
( git --no-pager log --numstat -u
255c03d6ad4ed13c456ee621e0af765684a475d2~..4a4627eba410df933d004170d9f5638526acaed2
;
git --no-pager log
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
Possibly, whatever happens, OSX people are going to moan that the app is
becoming more and more X11-like, and this won't be helped by the fact
that Glade was chosen to further dialog-UI development, even if it is
converted to VCL.
Hi Jose,
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 10:57 +1100, Jose Alonso wrote:
and the .docX format simply DOES NOT WORK in LibreOffice, or in (I
have just also checked) OpenOffice. Pictures and graphics do not
transfer, misinterpretation of formats is rife !
:-) So - LibreOffice is developed through
Hi Kendy,
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 15:45 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
I've just got one more compliant about our crash recovery dialog - no
big surprise I guess. But this time with a good idea how to improve the
experience without having to touch that [== without too much work] ;-)
:-)
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 15:51 +0100, Mirek M. wrote:
If you think we really need an up-front ruler toggle, how about
Hey - you argue convincingly against it IMHO :-) Cluttering the default
menus with yet-another strange option is prolly also not such a great
plan either.
putting it in
Hi guys,
Thoughts on this ? I guess there are issues around seeing / creating
tabs etc.
ATB,
Michael.
Forwarded Message
Subject: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look
I have submitted a patch for review:
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 14:02 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote:
there is nothing in LO bugzilla but in AOO you will find
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=99284 with a link to
http://www.libre-software.net/plea-for-hidden-rulers-in-open-office.
For me it would only mean to add one
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 11:07 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
I think this autofit feature is very disturbing if you are not
aware of it. From my point of view it should be removed
because if what you are writing does not fit in the available
room, you should write less
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 00:04 +0200, Stefan Knorr wrote:
I personally would have been more in favour of making the overlay bar
appear only after clicking on a slide where it could then have stayed,
until the user selected another slide.
:-) Sounds like a reasonable approach to me too.
Hi there,
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 06:35 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Nobody interested to test and answer?
Sigh - people are busy; in particular Markus - whose baby this is has
just put in a great chunk of bug-fixing work for 3.6.2 / 3.6.3 to
improve lots of conditional formatting
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:49 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
I agree with the header/footer thing.
Heh - I think the general concept of things appearing instantly on a
timeout you can't see, and then being click-able is a really bad one. We
had this with header-footer widgets getting clicked by
Hi guys,
Cedric just made my week with fixing:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46141
To show the add header/footer controls only when a user clicks on the
header or footer ( thanks Cedric ! :-)
Of course it needs testing; particularly if it's is
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 18:52 +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
Attached is a patch that I know you are not too happy about ;-) - change
the default of creating the desktop icon on Windows back to 'yes'.
Patch itself seems reasonable; the ux-advise mail I saw seemed like
we'd got confused
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:59 +0200, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
Anyway, here's the text I wanted to propose:
I just dumped it across:
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-gui/
Thanks ! :-)
Michael.
--
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 09:47 +0200, Stefan Knorr wrote:
But: I don't think the width of the area is the only or even the most
important problem – the problem seems to be the clickable area. I've
attached a screenshot of the approximate clickable areas of the button:
the red area are brings up
Hi Ralph,
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 14:28 +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
I hope it is not impolite to post UX suggestions to this list.
It's really designed for developers to ask UX designers for input, and
to improve that interaction.
1) It is much too easy to change the aspect ratio of a
Hi Daniel,
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 12:33 +0200, Daniel Mania wrote:
As far as I understood, I am not the only one here who would like all
document types to behave the same. It is just too much work for anyone
to do anything about it. ...
It seems likely that the discuss list, or the
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote:
Sounds good.
Pushed this one.
Maybe it would be even better to move all the grey colors up so that
that they aren't somewhere between the other colors.
IMHO we need an entirely new color-selection palette metaphore
Hi there,
One thing that has annoyed me in the past, but I'm not really a power
user is hunting 'white' down the color selector list. Any thoughts on
this rather trivial patch to move them together ? [ not pushed to msater
].
Thanks,
Michael.
--
Hi guys,
I just noticed (fixing the default theme for LOOL) that the Mac builds
have been using the Galaxy icon-set by default.
Is that deliberate ? (I 'fixed' it to Tango in passing to simplify the
logic), if that was deliberate, I can put it back of course.
Thanks !
On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 14:30 -0700, Alexander Wilms wrote:
They are licensed under LGPL v.3 or Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, would that
theoretically allow incuding those icons?
We'd really prefer to have them under MPLv2 I think; asking jimmac /
the authors for permission would be great.
Hi Alexander,
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 15:02 +0200, Alexander Wilms wrote:
I'm Alex and member of the design team. I've created some templates,
mostly for Impress.
Oooh ! :-) lovely, something that is long overdue.
Some of them are uploaded on templates.libreoffice.org and seem
to be
Hi Gregg,
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 23:05 -0700, greggory...@gmail.com wrote:
This is my second patch I've attempted (this is getting fun). I've
also attached the patch to the bug. Is there a standard approach to
this? Should I only attach in one place or another?
Thanks for that, I
Hi Thomas,
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:20 +0100, Thomas Arnhold wrote:
I recently discovered that there's a more or less complete usage of
acoustic beeps in Libo. This is done by System::Beep(). I did a grok for
Beep and got 59 results all over the code. I don't think that is much.
Is this a
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 14:08 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
Is it possible for you to polish my crystal bowl a bit, e.g. where do we
have those beeps.
git grep -5 Sound::Beep
and have a think about the context's ;-)
Just from what pops up in my mind, I think those happen when a
Hi Jean Francois,
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 08:50 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
As I understand (correct me if necessary) this list goal -- which I find
excellent -- is to narrow the topic to actual user experience
enhancements
Well - the idea is that this is a place that
Hi Jean-Francois,
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 17:22 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
I may be somewhat long here and, hopefully, won't bother and take too
much of your (precious) time.
:-)
Before I go any further, let me introduce myself
Great to have you around, sounds
Hi guys,
Trawling negative user comments (as we ought to to try to improve ;-) I
saw this:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2671075cid=39034649
Well, they're obviously moving much faster than openoffice did.
The product looks very clean, opens fast, and
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:16 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
There's still a number of key combinations that Calc is missing
(most noticeably ctrl-D to copy cell above),
You mean fill down via Ctrl-D? That's been the default key binding
since 3.3
Doesn't work for me. I
Hi Muhammad,
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:58 +0200, Muhammad Haggag wrote:
It's possible to solve that without having to update the list on open.
We can intercept the beginning of the Save As operation and update
the list with the old document. I uploaded a new patch that does that
(and removed
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
Hehe. Take a look at the amazing mock-up and ideas that Mirek has been
working on for a while now:
http://clickortap.wordpress.com/frivl/
They look nice :-)
(No, none of this is perfectly specced out yet, but there's
Hi Mirek,
On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 23:11 +0100, Mirek M. wrote:
A few questions from a design team member:
Shoot ! :-)
I'm assuming the LibreOffice Android port will sport a UI different
from its desktop counterpart, without menus or dialogs and with a
simple file manager (as is the
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 08:41 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
My opinion is that in read-only mode, LibO should feel as much as a
PDF reader as possible to avoid annoying the user while e.g.
proof-reading his own document or just reading someone else's
document.
I hate plus-ones;
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:40 +0100, Albert Thuswaldner wrote:
Just a thought: should we push this to the 3.5 branch? This is a small
polish of the user experience and it might be good to have it in a
release soon
Well - hopefully six months away is not -so- far - but I appreciate
your
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 16:24 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
Personally, I -love- this feature :-) it finally makes that dialog
clear. Any chance whomever did this work (or some other kind volunteer)
can add a screenshot and credit to:
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 16:34 +0100, Regina Henschel wrote:
It's the OS's domain to (quickly) start applications, and OS's are
pretty good at that. If you want to start anything particularly
quickly on...
Hey ho ;-) clearly the more cruft we can remove the better, but at
least for
Hi Andras,
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:56 +0100, Andras Timar wrote:
I've just found this feature, soffice -h displays a dialog box on
Windows with some help text.
Heh - what fun :-)
Problems:
1. Dialog is not localisable. Help text comes from const char arrays
in
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 21:36 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
(I don't want to mess up 3.5, so for now, I'd rather leave it to
someone else to cherry-pick)
Renamed the directory, and pushed to -3-5,
Thanks ! :-)
Michael.
--
michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:22 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
So - what I'll try to do is that the appearing will start later (not 1
sec, but maybe 200 - 500 ms), but the functionality will be available
immediately when the mouse is there; so the impatient user who knows
where to click will be
Hi guys,
I just read a mail like this:
[snip]
As you all know the floppy disc is some thing out dated in the modern
computer world.
Why we still continue the Floppy Disk as the icon for Save button in
LibreOffice?
[/snip]
And wondered: can we not just drop the updated Tango
Hi Garret / Jimmac,
First - welcome to a CC on our (lowish volume, fun to join,
non-reply-to-mangling UX advise list for LibreOffice[1] ;-)
We'd really love to switch our 'Save As' icon to the latest Tango
version, but have some licensing queries: is there any chance we could
get
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:17 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote:
Anyhow - it looks great; no doubt we should add this to:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5
With suitable credits etc. close the bug.
...
Any reason why this patch does not show in 3.5 beta0?
Hi guys,
So - one of the sexy features to hit LibreOffice 3.5 - that (sadly)
hasn't hit the wiki page yet (Michael?)
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5
Is the ability to embed Multimedia (ie. videos audio) inside ODF
documents :-) that avoids the common
Hi Stefan,
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:27 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
I've finished up a patch to completely remove the Large Handles
option. In large part, it touches on the same files that Tim's patch
to remove Simple Handles did.
Thanks for that - and sorry Tim for restraining
Hi Olivier,
Caolan - after the 'word count' victim dialog, it seems that the
extensions dialog has a foul nightmare of manual size calulation all
over it ;-) cf. the ~90 lines of:
desktop/source/deployment/gui/dp_gui_dialog2.cxx /Resize/
That also happen to do rather a
Hi Caolan,
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:32 +, Caolán McNamara wrote:
Caolan - after the 'word count' victim dialog, it seems that the
extensions dialog has a foul nightmare of manual size calulation all
over it ;-) cf. the ~90 lines of:
Bah, just weeping with sadness with my recent
Hi Stefan,
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 12:10 +0100, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
here is the promised patch to (again) change the Tango handles
slightly. It also adds a recoloured version of the sprite that fits
better into Galaxy. (Patch again provided under LGPLv3+/MPL.) Sorry
about the delay.
Hi Astron,
On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 00:45 +0100, Astron wrote:
So, I've been working tirelessly (enough hyperbole for now) to create
new handles. Attached are a screenshot and modified versions of
markers.png, cropmarkers.png [0].
Wow - looks lovely :-) really great to see it prettier.
Hi guys,
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 15:28 +0100, Astron wrote:
5) The handles for resizing and rotating look rather dated. They
should be replaced by some squares/circles filled with a nice
gradient. Are they hardcoded or could the graphics simply be replaced?
Agreed - there are two
Hi there,
Last split out mail:
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 15:28 +0100, Astron wrote:
Lastly, there's the anchor image from Writer that is also in dire need
of replacement.
Oooh ! that could be pretty indeed :-)
What would be great:
* to know the location of these images in the
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