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

>  Yes, some qualitative feedback would be nice ... some hint: don't ask
>
> for the features they miss, ask for what they wanted to do and where
> they experienced problems. And, after finishing the interview, I suggest
> that you ask what other office productivity suites they use - otherwise
> its very hard to compare.


ok thanks for the hint. I know that they use M$ Word or they PDF it, drop
box it to the ipad,  then change it so that it looks good in pages.  but
there are more people to ask, so ill get back to you latter. I will meat
with some of them this Wednesday.

Why this approach? Because normal users always tend to answer they need
> certain features, although they never use them ... it might sound
> cold-hearted from my side, but here we need to protect them to fiddle
> around with their choice :-) I once summarized that for OOo Renaissance:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance/FAQ


makes since.


A mockup or a blog post is great to transport an idea - to get interest
> by other people and to make sure that those people see the potential.
> But for the implementation (which is more than development) you need to
> involve a lot of people.


oh I know, I was just wondering whether his post was good enough for a
 specification.
once we make a real specification we can start refining it so that every
one agrees to it.

Besides the explanations in the link above, you'll finally need
> accessibility, translation hints, QA details, "edge-cases" behavior,
> potential migration issues, ...


what Kind of accessibility, translations as in different languages(e.g.
German). and please explain (QA details, "edge-cases" behavior,)


> Back to the topic: A specification (or more relaxed: a whiteboard page)
> for a rather complex feature serves as a hub that connects all the
> different teams. André and I did a presentation on the LibO conference
> explaining exactly that ... and you might be surprised what we need to
> make sure that even tiny features work right from the start:
>
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/e/e6/2011-10-15v3_LibOCon_Non-Hacker-Tasks_Schnabel-Noack.pdf



Here is André's specification proposal:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Andreschnabel/Spec_Calc_grid_lines_on_colored_background


thanks for the links.

Andrew, my proposal to you is to pick a smaller feature - maybe
> unrelated to Citrus, so that it can be really implemented (maybe an Easy
> Hack?). How about doing that together ... with all the people on this
> list?


I was just giving an example still do not know what I will start with, but
when I do I will post it here so you guys can review it.

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