Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: More general stuff

Hi Christoph, all,

On 10-03-2011 20:22, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi Paulo, hi Hillar, all!
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.03.2011, 10:52 -0300 schrieb Paulo José:
> > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance/Design_Proposals_for_%E2%80%9CAccessing_Functionality%E2%80%9D#Design_Proposals_Submitted
> >
> > Wow, This is full of love! What did happen to these guys and their ideas? Where are they? :O
> Great stuff, isn't it? We did this "Design Proposal Session" for
> Renaissance - and this has been an amazing time, since I had the chance
> to work with the guys at Hamburg for a few days within their office when
> we prepared this effort. Pretty much fun!
Cool! Really Cool! :-D It must has been a great experience!

> Concerning the "what did happen to these guys". Well, some of those are
> on this mailing list (which I'm really happy about). And to some, who
> stopped activities concerning OOo some time ago, I've send an invitation
> mail ... part of the first Kick-Off step named "Send Invitation to
> Interested Parties". Unfortunately, only very few replied :-\
Well, I wish they come back to home to keep doing all this good work.

> The ideas: Some of them went into the Renaissance prototype that got
> famous for (people thought so) re-implementation of the Ribbon / Fluent
> concept by Microsoft. Unfortunately, many tiny but great ideas had to be
> postponed, because OOo wasn't ready yet ... so you may find stuff like
> the "Keyboard Command Invocation" that is pretty similar to your mockup
> once to be found at OMG Ubuntu:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Proposal_by_Andreas_Schuderer#Keyboard_Command_Invocation
Yeah, it's a Blender proposal too, actually already implemented. As well 
the circular menu.

> So personally, I consider this collection still a great resource to
> think about interaction improvements - it had been mostly created by the
> community. If you look more closely, the major concepts are very
> similar ... but the real potential is in the additional "small" ideas.
For sure. I spent some time looking at these pages and they brings 
ideas, like you've said, very similar. The actual differences are in the 
little details (for me, the most significant things in the daily usage 
in every application).

Cherrs,
~Paulo
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Paulo José O. Amaro
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Federal University of São João del-Rei
WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior
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