Re: [libreoffice-design] Windows 8 version?

["Mirek M." <mazelm@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew,
I don't think the developer team plans to support Windows 8 Metro anytime
soon, so any work on it would be futile right now. Write to the UX advice
mailinglist libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org to make sure.

2012/4/12 Alberto Delgado <albertoeda@gmail.com>

> Hello, my name is Alberto Delgado, i'm new here so please correct me
> if i do something wrong.
>
> Windows 8 is a few months away from launching into the market, i have
> installed the consumers preview on my computer, and looking for a free
> alternative to MS Office i installed LibreOffice. The program works
> perfectly
> but it's completely... weird in W8 due to the extreme redesign in the UI.
>
> I believe that it's a great opportunity for LibreOffice to enter the W8
> marketplace, it would direct many users away from MS Office 2012
> and into LibreOffice.
>
> However, with the current design of the program it just won't work,
> i have been using Windows 8 for a while, so i can start drafting
> how the program could look like to be in tone with the Windows 8 UI.
> However i am not a graphic designer so i can not really make the graphics
> for the program, but i can design the basic UI.
>
> If you believe this can be done and are interested in designing the
> interface for
> the Windows 8 app, the best way to go is to try Windows 8 and get a grasp
> of
> how apps should work and look like.
>
> Download Windows 8 Consumer preview:
> http://windows.microsoft.com/es-ES/windows-8/consumer-preview
>
> "Metro Style design guidelines"
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh781237
>
>
> Alberto Delgado
> albertoeda@gmail.com
>
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