On Jan 8, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Sven Schwedas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-01-08 15:56, Francis Lachapelle wrote: >> Hi Anna >> >> On Jan 8, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Anna Christina Naß <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> The next major release of SOGo (v3) will offer multiple themes and/or an >>>> easy way to customize the colours and fonts of the interface. >>> >>> I hope that it will feature a non-flat really-usable "classic" theme for >>> people who dislike the Windows 8-ish style which appeared everywhere in the >>> Internet and makes many websites harder to use than ever. >>> >>> If there is a need for financial support for such a theme, just open some >>> kind of Kickstarter or Bounty. >> >> You'll have to define what "classic" is for you. > > Presumably the current v2 theming. The v2 theme hasn't changed for years. It's time to move on. >> Rest assured that v3 will be even more user-friendly and hopefully pleasant >> to use for the majority of users. >> >> We're looking into adopting Google Material design specifications >> (http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/). It's the most complete >> spec I never seen for web applications. > > While it's not as bad as others, there's some rather jarring concepts, > like "floating action buttons" (3 toolbars weren't enough, apparently?). They suggest to only promote the most common/important action as a floating action button. There should not be multiple floating buttons. > In general, "context sensitive" UX is fine for casual use where you > don't bother trying to learn a program anyway; but when you want to > (because you're using $program 8 hours a day and it'd make you more > productive), it makes training muscle memory a lot harder as actions > randomly appear/disappear (especially bad when there's not even keyboard > shortcuts). I'm not sure to follow. Who's talking about a random interface? Why would v3 not have keyboard shortcuts? v3 has to be accessible on mobile devices and will therefore be responsive. In this perspective, the interface will change depending on the size of your screen but the interface will stay similar. Francis-- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
