Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Stopping the rubbish

2013-10-22 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sveinn í Felli wrote: > Þann þri 22.okt 2013 13:11, skrifaði dollyp: > >Can anyone stop the blizzard of rubbish being posted here and also coming > >through into my mail box. 44 alone today. > Switched list to moderation for non-members temporarily until this is under control. That should deal with

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Impress side pane & layout selection

2013-10-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi guys, was playing with master & Impress today, just *lovely* how the sidebar turned out there, kudos to all involved! Was wondering though, the 'Layout selection' menu is only visible if no object is selected - if you select one, it gets replaced by other stuff in the 'Properties' pane. Though

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Hide and show slides from custom dialog

2013-07-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
[dropping the dev list, this is no code talk currently] Guillermo Molleda Jimena wrote: > It would be better to put an option to print a certain "custom slide > show" because could also have been chosen the slides in a different > order. > Yup, that's what I would suggest - therefore wondering ab

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Hide and show slides from custom dialog

2013-07-01 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Guillermo Molleda Jimena wrote: > Objective: to print a custom in PDF, hiding the rest of slides and > presenting only those chosen. > Can anyone help? > Hi Guillermo, so you mean, beyond selecting certain slides, within that custom selection, have some 'don't export this to pdf' meta-customizatio

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Impress : general feed back

2013-05-10 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michel RENON wrote: > Can it be implemented easily ? > Disabling stuff, changing focus etc. is generally easy stuff, that could be done as EasyHacks, or as a group effort e.g. on the upcoming HackFest in Hamburg. Would you want to file a number of bugs for those (provided it is not yet reported),

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mass changes to Impress animations - related to fdo#41572

2013-05-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mirek Mazel wrote: > On your original proposal [1], I'm thinking this kind of > functionality might be best suited to styles (kind of like CSS > animations). Do you think it would be possible to make animations a > part of presentation styles? > Yup, that would be my thinking - at least technicall

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [RFC] fdo#62745 - context menu questions for Impress

2013-04-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, just want to raise awareness of the discussion inside that bug with you - anyone with ptrs to previous reviews, or want to chime in? Thanks, -- Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Lib

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mass changes to Impress animations - related to fdo#41572

2013-03-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michel Renon wrote: > No, I was referring to the edition of a slide, when an animation is > already defined on the lines of text : if you change the content of > the text, the animation is not updated. > Right - this is a bug. > With all your first answers, I started to brainstorm some ideas. > I'

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mass changes to Impress animations - related to fdo#41572

2013-03-22 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michel Renon wrote: > In order to work on that problem, I would like to have some > technical advise about what can be implemented or not. > Hi Michel, as a matter of fact (though a bit tongue-in-cheek) - this is software, so anything goes. The question rather is how much effort is it. ;) > (just

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mass changes to Impress animations - related to fdo#41572

2013-03-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi guys, Janit was volunteering to look into https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41572 and is struggling a bit how to best achieve that. The bug report there muddles a few things up it seems, it is also not entirely clear what should happen if one assigns a new master page to an existi

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] I know I shouldn't but I'll do it anyway....

2013-02-16 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Christoph Noack wrote: > linking back to ancient times (dont be confused by the branding :-) > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:ChristophNoack/Drafts/WelcomeCenter_2010 > Hey Chris!! Good to know you're still watching - and thanks for the link, good stuff there. Let's move the discussion to

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, several partial answers to points from various people. Disclaimer: I'm the original author of this feature, so at least I can tell you the reasons for why the feature behaves as-is today. ;) Muthu Subramanian wrote: > Currently the text font size box in the toolbar displays the > origin

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Repo / place for original artwork files (was: Re: [PUSHED] Make new About dialogue a little nicer)

2012-08-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Alexander Wilms wrote: > just an idea: Could we use the old artwork repository that's not used > anymore? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/artwork/ > Nah, let's not do that. We can't kill the old content there, and playing games with unrelated branches is not so very clean. If you'd like a

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Review-3-6?] New artwork for 3.6

2012-07-10 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Stefan Knorr wrote: > Currently, about.svg is unused. I was asked, however, to re-enable it, > as a matter of treating new contributors contributions better. I will > not come to doing this today (i. e. before RC1 is tagged). > If about.svg were used, it would be the same across all version of > Li

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Review-3-6?] New artwork for 3.6

2012-07-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
> Stefan Knorr wrote: > > Also, feel free to fetch the tar.bz2 archives from the previous mail, > > they're now good to go. > > > Thanks, using them - though it seems they miss the about.svg > (background image) - then again, that seems unused from the code by > now? > > Can that go, and the conf

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Where do the official splash screens etc. lie?

2012-06-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Stefan Knorr wrote: > Since we will want to replace them in the near future, can you tell me > where they are? > http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/tdf-branding.tgz > Another question: since Asa Dotzler from Mozilla criticised LibO for > using TDF logos in the installer (which really doesn't make

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Repo / place for original artwork files (was: Re: [PUSHED] Make new About dialogue a little nicer)

2012-06-15 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Petr Mladek wrote: > I prefer the new version as well, so pushed into master. It will be in > the 3-6 branch. > Hi guys, great stuff, nice fresh look! :) Somewhat tangential to that, I'd like to trigger a decision-making process on where to store original artwork files (svg I presume, for the mo

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Visual representation of calc borders slightly changed

2012-05-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Stefan Knorr wrote: > Markus suggested that you (Thorsten) might be good person to speak to, > if we want perfect squares here. Can you do anything about that? (See > attached screenshot borders-round.png – just a magnification of > Markus's shot.) > Hi Astron, well easiest would be to wrap borde

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] should global keyboard shortcuts override sidepane mnemonics?

2012-05-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cor Nouws wrote: > And this is annoying for another reason too: start or open a > presentation, and you need to grab a mouse first to get the focus in > the slide and do your work .. > (Didn't I already open a bug for this .. Huh ;-) ) > If you find the bug again, do tell. ;) And well, having key

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] should global keyboard shortcuts override sidepane mnemonics? (was: Re: [PATCH]bnc#753458: in Impress starts presentation mode)

2012-05-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Felix Zhang wrote: > It will be great if someone review it for me, thanks! > Hi Felix, yeah, makes sense as a first cut - ultimately, though, there's a deeper problem, in that apparently global shortcuts are eaten by this dialog-in-disguise pane. For example, Ctrl-S is similarly eaten - you would

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [ANN] LibreOffice Hamburg Hackfest, April 14/15

2012-03-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
> Please find more (but still incomplete) information in our wiki: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Hamburg2012 > Hi there, I'm glad to tell you that the TDF board has approved a budget for travel bursaries for the HackFest - details on above wiki page, executive summary: * tra

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Google Summer of Code ...

2012-03-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote: > * An about:config thing for LibreOffice > Lovely, one of my long-term gripes (and I had a somewhat crufty attempt at fixing it) - added as https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Implement_a_.22about:config.22_functionality to the gsoc ideas page, p

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] The "no border text" feature in Writer 3.5 is not complete

2012-02-27 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > I'm looking here http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ > on a regular basis but no joy (yet). > Whoops, thx for the heads-up - http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/Linux-Fedora15-x86_64@4-gcc-4.6-dbgutil/ should be uploading soon again. Cheers, -- Thorsten

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Keep-ratio behaviour

2011-11-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Astron wrote: > So, if I understand you correctly, resizing with the side handles would > turn "keep ratio" off (see Michael's post at the beginning of this thread). > Is that correct? > Would make sense, yeah. > And then something else: can the "keep ratio" information be saved inside > document

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Keep-ratio behaviour

2011-11-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Christoph Noack wrote: > Sorry, I don't know what "default to keep" means in this case ... would > that mean that some objects (e.g. pictures) are scaled by keeping the > ratio, but others (e.g. clipart - similar to pictures) are not? > Yes and no - the proposal was, to default to "keep ratio", if

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] writer+calc - anchor icons ...

2011-11-01 Thread Thorsten Behrens
alexander.wilms wrote: > Wouldn't it be much more convenient to use single (SVG) images > instead, or at least a vector-based set of handles? > It seems the artwork people prefer precise control over single pixel, at least for small sized icons (<256²) Cheers, -- Thorsten pgpRsUAOq7GGZ.pgp Desc

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Re-sizing handles ...

2011-10-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Meeks wrote: > > There are four modes: small, large, small/3D, large/3D. Writer's > > scanner tool uses small square black handles, but I am not sure if > > these are graphics. > > Additionally, in Draw/Impress, there are at least another four handles > > (corner, side vertical, side horizo

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Keep-ratio behaviour

2011-10-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Meeks wrote: > Anyhow - just to split the mails up so we can reach a clear conclusion > quicker. I love your idea to re-use "keep ratio" (it is worth checking > if this is serialized in the file format for objects too I guess, or if > this is some UI artifact). > It's not - it's glob

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] writer: link frames ...

2011-10-27 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Olivier Hallot wrote: > I have one more suggestion: the same link mechanism as in writer for > frames in Draw. > > Is it an easy hack as well? > Nope. Cheers, -- Thorsten pgp2cDGzPgyOx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] 256x256 application icons ...

2011-10-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Meeks wrote: > Do we have > easy-to-grok collect, split svgs of each of the icons ? > Yep - svg with labels & groups for easy png generation is here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_Initial_Icons-pre_final.svg Cheers, -- Thorsten pgpVCvYhVgbA4.pgp Description: PGP