Re: [libreoffice-design] Play with the Windows look

Hi Astron,

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Stefan Knorr (Astron) <
heinzlesspam@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mirek, Kendy
>
> > I visited Kendy yesterday, he showed me a build of LibreOffice with Aero
> > glass menus, and he told me that it's possible to make a theme
> specifically
> > for Windows (or a specific version of Windows) -- we just need to design
> it.
>
> I've taken a look at it, and right now, it seems, the menu text is
> transparent ... but I believe that's trivial to fix.
> I've done a "mockup" of what it would look like with black text: .

?


> (So, yeah, still not completely readable. MSO 2010 has a relatively
> opque gradient coming up from the ribbon which makes that work: )
>
> However, it is really bad timing now since a few days ago it turned
> out that MS will be abandoning Aero with Windows 8 [4]. They even go
> so far as to call it looking "dated and cheesy" (click through to the
> MSDN source).

:) That's what I told Kendy. I have to agree with Microsoft, though -- Aero
was a resource-hungry skeumorphic UI that was more about the show and less
about the user (it makes content less readable and distracts the user with
whatever is happening in the background). I have to say I love Metro's (and
Android Holo's) "authentically digital" design.

I've tried Windows 8 Release Preview, and they still use some
> translucency effects on the desktop, but it's not nearly as pronounced
> as it used to be in Vista and 7. Yet, all of the desktop somehow looks
> wrong, like a step back into plastic XP land... Thus, I'm not
> convinced that they really want to ship it as it is now.

> Now, how about we just use some gradient-from-the-bottom look, like MS
> Office does:
>
> http://cdn.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Power-Word-Office-2010-Addin.jpg
> ?

To be honest, I'd prefer a solid-color menu bar, but as both you and Kendy
insist on using Aero glass in the menu bar and I could care less about
Windows, how about something like this:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Doze3.png ?

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