Re: [libreoffice-design] Android UI work

Charles I have to disagree, I feel that a prototype is the best way to 
go in regards to moving this project forward, I understand that its a 
big task and very far from being over. I think a working prototype would 
allow us to actually have a testing platform in this case a simple UI 
that can then be refined and improved. Tor on the developers list at 
this point suggested getting a UI which will open files only at this 
point, and I think its a good start, and then slowly we can implement 
new UI's for the various parts of LO and that would be where what you 
mentioned should be carefully considered.

On 4/4/12 9:16 AM, Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Shameless plug from my side: I think that Jonathan might be putting the
> "carriage before the horses" here , to use an old french word. First,
> let's all remember that the porting work to Android is far from being
> over. In fact it's hardly started. Second, there has been an exploratory
> design job that's been started here, by the UX/Design team, as a set of
> concepts for a future tablet, touch-based interface, and I think we may
> first want to continue refining and exploring that path before
> developing an actual interface.
>
> Simply put: Jonathan's work is rather premature. We have nothing to base
> its interface on, and it might be better to keep the UX/Design team
> active on existing tasks and to-dos rather than having its efforts spent
> in something that cannot / will not work for a long time.
>
> Best,
> Charles.
>
>
> Le mercredi 04 avril 2012 à 08:01 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit :
> > I had looked at think free office, which I know doesnt support ODF but I
> > am using it more for the UI look. What I noted is that it displays all
> > the directories in ones devices.
> >
> > I was thinking instead of doing that, When loading it would some how
> > index the location of all files and just display all the files that the
> > user can open with the program, with icons just as you mentioned to show
> > which program will open them.
> >
> > On 4/4/12 3:12 AM, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> > > What do you mean by directory tree? Do you mean that view where you see the
> > > icon of the document, doc name, when created, what type, and other info all
> > > in one line? Because I hate that view in the desktop.  It's fine to offer
> > > that for the people who want it for some reason. But the default view shoud
> > > be large document previews with the type of doc icon in one of the corners,
> > > and the name under it.
> > > On Apr 3, 2012 1:40 PM, "Jonathan Aquilina"<eagles051387@gmail.com>   wrote:
> > >
> > > > Christopher this is userful, but in a way you are jumping the gun here.
> > > >
> > > > Tor and I discussed yesterday on a good place to start, and I agree with
> > > > him at this point its best to get something to where we can just open the
> > > > files.
> > > >
> > > > As in my original email I am wondering if its worth making it easy for the
> > > > users to open the files by just providing them with a list of all files
> > > > that can be opened by LO instead of a file explorer that displays the
> > > > entire directory tree.
> > > >
> > > > On 03/04/2012 19:37, Christopher Stark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > in November I sent this email with a link several suggestions concerning
> > > > > a Android UI:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.christopherstark.**de/extern/LO-Android/Android_**LO.html<http://www.christopherstark.de/extern/LO-Android/Android_LO.html>
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe it helps for the current discussion.
> > > > >
> > > > > best regards
> > > > > Christopher
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > > > Subject:        Suggestions for an Android User Interface
> > > > > Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:04:44 +0100
> > > > > From:   Christopher Stark<christopherstark@gmx.de>
> > > > > To:     design@global.libreoffice.org
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to make some suggestions for an Adroid UI of LibreOffice:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.christopherstark.**de/extern/LO-Android/Android_**LO.html<http://www.christopherstark.de/extern/LO-Android/Android_LO.html>
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe I can put this into the LO-Wiki, but I'm not sure if that works
> > > > > with regular html-code...
> > > > >
> > > > > best regards
> > > > > Christopher
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