Re: [libreoffice-design] All at once?

Hi All,

About the radical change of the UI toward a more efficient toolkit, you
might be interested in reading Michael Meeks' presentation for
OOocon2008  "Layout: towards a pretty UI"
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/friday_1470.pdf
I don't know if the technical side is still relevant, but the approach
still stands IMHO.

Camille

On 09/12/2011 05:11, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> sean
>
>
> >  I know that the main UI devs are against sudden change to the UI, but
> > there are somethings like this idea of
> > changing toolkits for at least the gui side of things that DO need to be discussed
> > sooner rather than later and it would certainly be easier to test new ui
> > features and ideas by writing them straight into the new UI rather than
> > have them in the old one.
> why is a sudden UI change a bad thing. I know that we can not
> just implement Citrus in one release but if we could why would it be such a
> bad thing to do. was M$ Office changing there UI to their new ribbon UI
> that big a deal. people are going to have to get used to it one way or
> another. whether they get it one peace at a timetechnical side  like most FOSS people
> will, we just change it on them all at once, or if they change from M$O to
> LO. again not to say that we could, would or should do this. we just need
> to get away from the 16 year or so old UI and make something new.
>
> and besides its not like the Citrus UI is all that different from the
> current one. it is very intuitive, just a little different. I mean what
> could possibly be under the page menu... could it be things related to
> page... the only thing that you need to get used to is the changing of the
> UI. but once you relies that there is no longer any text options because
> you have selected an image, and if you where to go back to a area in which
> you can start typing they come back, it should all make seance.
>
> and if you think that is strange and you have a M$ Office just go into word
> and make a table. you will see a table tools, with new design and lay out
> suddenly appear. they released that there are some tools that you do not
> need all the time, and should only appear when you do.


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