Re: [libreoffice-design] Complete redesign of the interface!

@Ricardo, good point about the window decoration. I was thinking the same
myself. At the moment, KDE, Gnome, Unity, Mac OS and Windows all of their
own unique implementations of the window titlebar. Microsoft Office can get
away with customising their titlebar since their suite is optimised for
Windows. LibreOffice, on the other hand, is cross platform so we can't
afford to go messing with OS specific utilities like the titlebar. Google
got away with this with Chromium but they've got some serious resources
behind them. So with this mockup the widgets need to be taken out of the
titlebar and worked back into the main UI.

@Busilav, Overall, it's a really good mockup! I love the not-quite-tabs
you've got in the upper left hand corner. I imagined something similar to
this before but didn't thing it would work as well as you've drawn it. Good
job! Your multiple docuements pane on the left is also interesting. I assume
you intended this to be like browser tabs but with a visual preview? If so,
that idea has been floating around recently and it's nice to see it on
paper! It would also be nice if the user could move these back to the top to
have them become more like traditional browser tabs.

Thanks,
Patrick

On 19 June 2011 14:44, RGB ES <rgb.mldc@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/6/19 Budislav Stepanov <budo345libre@gmail.com>:
> >
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/d/d0/New_libre_office_concept.png
> > --
>
> To incorporate app elements on the window decoration is something that
> could start a bit of debate, I think. For my part, I'm against of this
> "client side windows decoration" tendency that started a couple of
> years ago, noisily voiced by some projects and quietly (but clearly)
> rejected by others. But beside my opinions, the fact that several
> players on the desktop "market" have different approaches (KDE
> developers stated quite clearly they will never support it), I think
> we need to let the desktop alone and concentrate on the app.
> Also, for my part I consider that some degree of consistency with the
> desktop is needed: if you will be in front of the computer several
> hours each day using different applications you need to be comfortable
> with your environment and that imply a minimum degree of consistency
> between the tools you are using. Ideally, the widgets colours and
> styles, file picker, etc. need to be set by the desktop, while less
> used tools like print menu could be different. Obviously, there is
> full freedom for specific tools like style editor or cross reference
> menu.
> After years of integration pain 3.4 visually integrates quite well on
> my KDE desktop. I think this integration must be keep.
> Just my 2¢
> Cheers
> Ricardo
>
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