Re: [libreoffice-design] New Design and experience

Hey Fernando,

Just so you know, the listserv removes images and attachments automatically
so you'll have to include a link to the photo.  From what I'm
reading/imagining, I think this might be a good idea, so let's not forget
about it as we continue forward!

-Scott

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 20:13, Fernando Andrade
<fernandofreamunde@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> my name is Fernando Andrade, and i have an idea for the graphical interface
> of Libre Office.
> It is a little bit based on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, minimalistic
> and functional but a lot different of the actual LO interface. Microsoft
> made a step in the right direction in 2007 when they introduced in the
> market the new interface, although many people didn't like it nowadays
> people cant use other interface, because the MS Office interface
> have eye-candy and is useful and productive.
>
> Now it is time to LO do the changes that will make the difference, i picked
> the concept of a Dock, introduced by Steve Jobs on NextStep, and aplied it
> to the toolbars. Instead of ugly toolbars or the tabs thing of MS Office, a
> dock would work nice. But how do i apply a fancy dock like docky on the
> toolbars, it just don't make sense. Well its just the dock concept, the
> thing i call docklet.
>
> It works like a dock in the way that we can drag and drop icons to
> add functionalities that we need, or drag and drop to remove the ones we
> don't need. when clicked a drop down menu appears with the info and the
> options that we have.
>
> As an example the character related info(Bolted, Italic, Underlined, font,
> size, color, highlight, etc..) in only a small and beutiful menu, with
> a beautiful icon.
>
>
> [image: rffff.bmp]
>
> In the picture you can see what i mean, its just the concept of some thing
> new.
> the menu can be on a global menu like he ones on MacOS or Ubuntu, on
> windows
> it could show  on top of the docklet. If you like this concept please
> replay
> to me, i have more idieas and you would need the full concept, this is just
> a raw draw made directly from my brain to the file via ms paint...
>
> Thank you for your time;
> Open regards;
> Fernando Andrade
>
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