Re: [libreoffice-design] Page numbers on background

Hi,

even though there were some improvements regarding gtk-integration in LO 
3.4 there are still some issues like the flickering you mentioned. Are 
there any plans to rewrite LO in gtk or QT as part of the UI redesign? 
At least in my opinion that would be a huge improvement, make LO look 
far more professional and would probably make coding the new UI easier.
How I understand it, LO is based on a "UI framework" that isn't native 
on any system and has to be extended for each OS, right? Wouldn't it 
also reduce coding work by simply delivering LO on Windows bundeled with 
gtk like The Gimp?
What do you think?

Alex

Am 24.06.2011 12:49, schrieb Astron:
> Hi,
> > On a side note, when fast-scrolling through artists on an iPod classic or
> > contacts on an Android phone (and probably iPhone), the first letter of the
> > current artists/contacts you're scrolling through is shown front and centre
> > on screen in a huge transparent font. Something similar to this could be
> > quite nice in LO with page numbers in Writer and Slide numbers in Impress.
> Good idea, but it would look less than amazing in LibO. Currently even
> even simple actions like clicking on one of the buttons in the start
> centre can produce a flicker. Unless anyone really decides to rewrite
> LibO in Qt or GTK/Clutter, such a feature won't make users (at least,
> me) happy.
>
>
> As it currently looks in the little survey, there are many of you that
> will need page numbers in another place, too, not just on the document
> background—because you're working in a non-maximised window (that's
> what I meant by full-screen, sorry for the confusion) on often smaller
> screens or use multiple pages/multiple documents at once. So I give up
> on wanting to remove page numbers from the status bar.
>
>
> @Mirek:
> > In the original (Citrus UI) proposal, the number also serves as a page (or
> > slide) handle. When you click it, you get a contextual toolbar with all the
> > commands pertaining to the page [group]: page style, layout, format,
> > orientation, margins, columns, borders, header, footer, etc.
> I don't know, but I can't imagine this kind of behaviour when the page
> numbers are not always visible. When you add a menu to the page
> numbers you easily start depending on them and sometimes not seeing
> the numbers will create confusion and enrage users who wonder where
> the easy way of adjusting the page just went. Many probably will
> assume that they'll have to zoom out again (if they don't know they
> can find the same things in the (context) menu).
>
>
> Astron.



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