Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LibreOffice Tablet Suite

HI,

- We already explained that we cannot change the UI of LibreOffice all
>  of a sudden or as a whole, but that incremental improvements will be
>  the way to work. However, when it comes to a tablet interface, things
>  are different, as we do not expect to use the "LibreOffice
>  interface". The work that's currently being done by developers is to
>  port the system, the platform, the featureset if you will, but the
>  interface as it stands today would of course not be desirable. This
>  means that a new UI for tablets will be necessary, starting more or
>  less from scratch (I'm sure there will be constraints, etc.)

we are starting from scratch here. yes the UI that Mirek has come up with
looks very much the same as his "Citrus UI" but that is the way it should
be(or at least if we decide to go with Citrus[which we should.])
of cores the interface that we have today would not be good on a tablet. I
have talked to a few people that USE pages on the ipad a lot at my church to
make their sermons, and they have said that you can do too little in pages.
they want more tools with the tablet suite. they also say that because of
this they make there documents on the computer with M$ word. so some of the
curent UI should be put into the tablet suite.




> - Designing an interface won't be everything. You can draw a beautiful
>  mock-up, but if the design/UX team does not translate it into
>  specification(s) it will remain a nice mock-up. Developers do not
>  know what to do with a mock-up, it can only be an illustration that
>  gives a general impression.

what kind of specifications, from what Mirek and I have done so far what do
the developers need to make it work? from what I have done it it I can see
only one or two things that would need more explaining, which would be that
when typing the document the contextbar and maybe the top bar would hide and
when press the bar that remains it would reaper.


> - What I think will be interesting and very useful for "design ecology"
>  and user friendliness will be to have commonalities between the
>  LibreOffice interface on the desktop and LibreOffice on tablets,
>  keeping in mind they will of course be completely different; yet
>  certain UX details could be made common or look similar, giving in
>  turn a feeling of comfortable identity between the two.

the tablet suite should be much more simplistic that the desktop but as I
said above from talks I have had people want much more than just the basic
text editor. this means that the two UI can be more the same
then originality thought. yes some things will be different but some things
must stay the same to keep cohesive.


> last but not least; it does mean that we need to work on incremental UX
> improvements first for the LibreOffice desktop, and we need specification

work and drafting there.


Thank you, thats what I have been saying.

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