Re: [libreoffice-design] New Design and experience

Hi Christian!

I like the search idea, it's interesting and I think it should probably
looked at in more detail at some point. However, the funny thing about
search it's kind of tricky to implement because you need to second guess
what the user actually wants to do. A search function for UI commands hasn't
really been done before [that I know of] so it's hard to imagine how it
should work. Take the simple example, a user has his cursor positioned half
way through line 3 of his document in writer and he wants to start typing in
bold. He doesn't know the UI too well so he types bold into the search box
and the bold command pops up. He clicks that and wants to start typing in
bold but his cursor is no longer in place since he just moved focus to the
search box. That's not very nice behaviour and of the thousands of commands
in LO there are probably a lot that don't quite fit with search for a
variety of reasons like this. In the end, I'm not sure if the benefits of
search to the user would warrant the effort it would take to implement. I
wouldn't rule out search, I'm just not sold yet.

As for left sided sidebar vs right sided toolbar, that's a good point you
make about unity users. With the near infinite variety of different users
and configurations out there, there are also going to be some upset with a
decision left or right decision like this one. If LO does go down the
sidebar route, the side which the sidebar sits on should probably be
made configurable since most people would have their own preference on
this. You're correct that Manual Searching is a feature of tabs, ribbons and
drawers. The best we can do about that is to make sure that everything is in
it's most logical place! ;-)

Some great discussions flowing on this list. Loving my first week here!

Thanks,
Patrick

On 12 June 2011 02:54, Christian Vielma <cvielma@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Patricks mockup is very similar to Calligra (which i liked too). But i
> thinkthe search button and a easy configurable toolbar would be great. Also
> i think the left side options could interfere with unity, and i think it
> could have the same "lack" of the tabs in MSO because if you are
> continually
> changing between the options, you will be making extra/unnecessary clicks
> activating the menu and then making the clic.
>
> Anyway, i think the evolution of LO interface should be in this direction,
> using those spaces on the sides.\
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Alexander Wilms
> <alexander.wilms@zoho.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I really like Patricks mockup (
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeMockup.png), I had a
> > similar Idea. The toolbar shoud contain only the basic features and the
> > sidebar would show context-sensitive options, eg. the text formatting or
> > diagram options. I also made a mockup: http://ubuntuone.com/p/yf2/
> > In the mockup I additionally removed all those unneccesary dark lines to
> > achieve a cleaner look.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
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