Re: [libreoffice-design] New Design and experience

Hi everyone.

My name is Christian Vielma, i'm a Computer Engineer from Venezuela and i'm
interested in improving LibreOffice.

I think Fernando's idea could be great, but i would like to see images of
how could it be in order to understand better.

I had an idea of using things like "drawers". Those are similar to tabs of
MS Office, but you could "open" as many drawers as you want and have all the
options in the windows or maintain opened only the drawers that you use the
most.

That could be a good mix with the dock that Fernando commented, because you
could have a dock with the options you use most and "open drawers" to look
for functions that you would like to drag to the dock.

LibreOffice already use things like my idea of drawers, for example in
Impress when you have a side with the presentation design. But i would like
to extend it to be drawers instead of menues.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Scott Pledger <scottpledger2005@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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