Re: [libreoffice-design] How to contribute ?

 On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Mike Houben <mail@crazyhstudio.net> wrote:

> 2011/1/7 Rahul Prasad <rahul.pache@gmail.com>
>
> > Dear Christoph,
> >
> > Kindly find my answers to the questions below.
> >
> >
> > Well, it's hard to answer this question - at least from my
> > point-of-view. So instead of an answer, some more questions to you:
> >      * What kind of material? Material for the web, or flyers, or
> >        icons, or ... ?
> > *I want to work on User Interface of the products.*
>
> If you wan't to work on the User Interface ther are already some people
> working on "themes". And the User interface depends extremly on the system
> you work.
> Or if you like to work on a general User Interface, wich will be adapted on
> each operating system.
>
>     * Who requested it? Is it based on your initiative, or did
> >        somebody ask - e.g. based on the marketing or the design team
> >        work topics lists?
> > *I suggested OpenOffice to my father and friends, but they dont like it
> > much just because it does not look good. (As in comparison to MS Office,
> > according to them)
> > So I thought to contribute some interface design ideas in form of images.
> > Although I am not a good designer but given a draft, there are many ppl
> in
> > the list who
> > make things more attractive.*
>
> I have the same way how i choose to involve in the development of LO. I
> think we could work together on some ideas ;)
*
I was thinking of a nice background instead of a static colour.
You can find some of my design here
http://rahulprasad.com/public/libreOffice/writer/
Although design is not very appealing, but I am sure people will come come
up with better design.*


> > You may also simply talk about your ideas on this list, then it is far
> > easier to understand where to put what material ... especially since we
> > would benefit from focused efforts to avoid doubling the effort.
> > *Suppose I have created a design, what next? Who should I mail it to? who
> > will evaluate it? and how will that be implemented?*
>
> You create something, you present it to the mailing list and we will
> discuss
> here how it will be evaluated and implemented ;)
>
>
> Mike
>
> web: www.crazyhstudio.net
> blog: www.houbsi.org
> twitter: www.twitter.com/crazyhstudio
> skype: Houbsi
>
> --
> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+help@libreoffice.org<design%2Bhelp@libreoffice.org>
> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/
> *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+help@libreoffice.org
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/
*** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***