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Michael Meeks-2 |
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Hi guys,
I was surprised to see this come across my inbox: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-gui/ AFAIK Citrus is one of many mockups / ideas for changing the UI, but (as of yet) is one of many, and has no developers working on it (that I know of). Is there a more helpful text that points people towards the design process / pages for improving our UI in incremental ways, and/or any ideas of a better blurb to put on that page that stresses incrementalism over big-bang re-designs :-) ? Or am I just out of date ? :-) Thanks, Michael. -- [hidden email] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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Björn Balazs |
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Hi,
afaik there is no agreement on any future UI concept. Or am I wrong here? So we should not prompise anything that most likely won't happen... So imho this FAQ should be removed. Cheers, Björn Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 15:17:28 schrieb Michael Meeks: > Hi guys, > > I was surprised to see this come across my inbox: > > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/general-faq/are-there-any-plans-for > -a-new-gui/ > > AFAIK Citrus is one of many mockups / ideas for changing the UI, but > (as of yet) is one of many, and has no developers working on it (that I > know of). > > Is there a more helpful text that points people towards the design > process / pages for improving our UI in incremental ways, and/or any > ideas of a better blurb to put on that page that stresses incrementalism > over big-bang re-designs :-) ? > > Or am I just out of date ? :-) > > Thanks, > > Michael. www.OpenUsability.org www.OpenSource-Usability-Labs.com _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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Hi Michael, Sorry for not replying sooner. Hi guys, Right.
Off the top of my head: LibreOffice's GUI will change incrementally, improving usability of one feature at a time. A "big-bang" GUI rework of all modules would require a much larger developer community and would likely cause more problems than it would solve.
LibreOffice is almost certainly going to stick to a menu-and-toolbar GUI, which is ubiquitous across desktop operating systems. On mobile operating systems such as Android, LibreOffice will adopt a toolbar-based interface but will strive to be consistent with its desktop counterpart.
If you'd like to see the GUI projects that are being worked on and perhaps help out, visit the LibreOffice Design wiki. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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Stefan Knorr (Astron)-2 |
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Hi,
wanted to answer before... but didn't send the mail. > LibreOffice's GUI will change incrementally, improving usability of one > feature at a time. A "big-bang" GUI rework of all modules would require a > much larger developer community and would likely cause more problems than it > would solve. > > LibreOffice is almost certainly going to stick to a menu-and-toolbar GUI, > which is ubiquitous across desktop operating systems. On mobile operating > systems such as Android, LibreOffice will adopt a toolbar-based interface > but will strive to be consistent with its desktop counterpart. Anyway, here's the text I wanted to propose: "We are revising and improving LibreOffice's interface in small ways with every version. You can see some of our progress in the release notes for <a>LibreOffice 3.3</a>, <a>3.4</a>, <a>3.5</a> and <a>3.6</a>. The Design Team's <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards">Whiteboards section</a> in our wiki contains more information on planned improvements. A number of ideas to improve the interface in a big way exist, however, they are usually not yet mature enough to be implementable. It is important to note that such ideas generally need to be split up into several smaller chunks to better to better fit LibreOffice's development style." Astron. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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Michael Meeks-2 |
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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. -- [hidden email] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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Bjoern Michaelsen |
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:41:47PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 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/ nobody reads that anyway, dumped it at: http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/31/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-interface-gui/ which unrealistically praised Citrus before and ask.libreoffice.org is actually read by people. ;) Oh, btw devs should really go over there -- not to write answers, but to vote realistic answers up -- and crack answers down. Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise |
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