Hi Scott!
You asked a tough question ... something we struggled quite some time
within OpenOffice.org. So the question is not _if_ we apply platform
specific elements ... the question is rather what we can share accross
all platforms, because there is no reference implementation.
Some examples:
* Toolbar color-picker
* New "Slide layout" drop-downs
* Slide sorter in Impress
* Print dialog (on some platforms, there is no reference
implementation)
To me, this should be something that should be agreed on ... with the
development and marketing to define a "degree of freedom".
It's already part of the WhatWeNeed list, I've mentioned earlier ...
Collect, clarify and document fundamental questions [...]:
"Platform specific" (respect the platform interaction
guidelines ... e.g. like Mozilla Firefox) vs. "Platform
independence" (work the same way on any platform ... e.g. like
web sites)
Is this what you had in mind? Would you be interested in driving this
effort (the item "Clarify Marketing Questions")?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off/WhatWeNeed#Knowledge_and_Requirements
Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 10:49 -0600 schrieb Scott Pledger:
My only concern when asking this question is the implementation of any
kind
of a graphical look and feel - layouts would be the same across
platforms,
but should the look and feel (things such as the coloring/graphics of the
application) apply the user's system theme or whether the coloring and
graphical feel of LibreOffice should be the same across all platforms in
addition to the layout or if the layout should merely implement the
user's
native look and allow the system to apply whatever its theme is.
Just one addition - I usually refer to "look" as the visual style, and
"feel" as the behavior which also includes the workflows of the
software.
Yours Truly,
Scott R. Pledger
By the way, although we don't get any statistical evidence for users, I
really like these small surveys ... thanks!
Cheers,
Christoph
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 06:53, Daniel Merker <daniel.merker@wayne.edu
wrote:
2011/4/26 Scott Pledger <scottpledger2005@gmail.com>:
Purely out of curiosity, how many people here prefer that the user's
default environment theme (GTK, Qt, etc.) be applied to LibreOffice
versus how many would rather see LibreOffice get its own look
independent of the desktop environment?
From a Core UI stance, LibO should have a consistent look across all
platforms; for example, where the toolbar is, what is under each menu,
how
use cases are performed. The outer shell should conform to the standard
of
the platform; for example, where the max/min/close buttons are, what
order
those buttons should appear. IMHO, when you try to please everyone with
different versions, in this case based on platforms, of a UI, you tend
to
please no one....
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