Re: [libreoffice-design] Rework of the "Templates and documents" dialogue

Hi Mirek, *

Thanks for your input. After thinking about it I do agree with the 
points you mentioned. I made a new mock-up, similar to the first one. It 
puts the focus on previews, document details are shown in tootips and 
the category-selector has been shrinked to a drop-down menu. I added the 
options to select (color/font/...) schemes and to use an existing 
document as template/style.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Templates_and_documents_rework#Categories

I hope this makes it easier to implement this and avoids feature bloat.

@ Christoph: What do you think, is anything missing? Or could we inform 
other mailing lists, especially the devs to answer the open questions?

Regards

Alex


Am 22.02.2012 21:37, schrieb Mirek M.:
> Hi everyone,
> If I may chime in with my 2 cents here:
> I preferred the original mockup -- simple, clean, beautiful, puts the focus
> on template thumbnails.
>
> Frankly, I don't think a complex categorical view is necessary -- I would
> venture to guess that most people rarely touch templates, if at all, and
> therefore it's highly unlikely that someone will have 1000 Writer templates
> he needs to sort out into custom categories. And if one really has that
> many templates, he's better off using search. (BTW, a 100 templates per
> application is quite manageable with the previous mockup in a maximized
> window: a simple 10x10 grid. Or 5x20 when not maximized.)
>
> I also think tags are unnecessary feature bloat. The templates are already
> sorted out into their default categories, and there's a search function for
> those rare few with five hundred templates per application.
>
> Lastly, I would prefer that this didn't become a replacement for the "New"
> menu. Despite knowing about templates for quite a long time and having used
> iWork and MS Office for Mac, both of which show templates at startup until
> you disable the feature, I've never used templates. (I have used
> presentation styles, but those are different from templates.)
>
> Anyway, I hope I wasn't too depressing. I really loved the first mockup. :)



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