Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?

2011/4/26 Cyril Arnaud <cyril.arnaud@gmail.com>:
> Most user I encountered (not that much, so there is no statistics behind
> this observation) are doing fine because they look around, search,
> experiment. But some users are "afraid" of searching, testing.
> That's why I find the Symphony's UI interesting. It's  shiny, you are
> more eager to play with it.

Writer, for instance, is not an app that you can learn by trial and
error: you need to sit down for a while and RTFM ;)
But even if the interface could be improved and the learning curve
lowered, it is also true that "trial and error apps" are useful only
for simple tasks, and for simple tasks you can use abiword.
You cannot please everybody. And you cannot drive a jet the same way
you drive a bicycle. So the options are mainly two: to give "normal"
and "power" users two different apps, or to build only one app but
with two different UI.
I think that ooo4kids is starting to work on the second possibility.
Cheers
Ricardo

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