Re: [libreoffice-design] IRC chat & pop-ups

Hi Alex,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Alexander Wilms
<alexander.wilms@zoho.com>wrote:

> from Friday on I'll probably have internet access again, so maybe we
> could have an IRC meeting on Saturday.

Great!
Incidentally, I was about to post a mail about the chat and topics up for
discussion.
We should post one every week, so that a) we know what to talk about in
advance, b) newcomers to the mailing list find out about the IRC chat.

> Things that we might discuss
>
> - - whether the improved color handling could be done for 3.7 and
> whether to add Tango colors / gradients

Improved color handling would be nice, but I don't think we have a willing
developer yet.
However, we should resume working on the whiteboard so that we're ready
when there is a willing developer.

> - - should we change the default shape color to Tango Sky Blue 1 and the
> border color to tango Skype Blue 2 or 3


See my other mail.

> - - should the shape icons be blue, too?

Could you post an example of a blue vs. gray icon?
LibreOffice screenshots of the icons under a light and dark theme would be
best.

> - - Widget Layout: I already tried experimenting with a converted dialog
> in Glade and it's pretty easy. We should decide if we want to move
> button columns (cf.e Insert > Object > OLE Object) to the bottom and
> convert them to rows. Two clicks in Glade and we'd have more coherent
> dialogs.

Ok.
Perhaps this might be better fit for the ux-advise list, though, as
developers will be working on redoing the dialogs in Glade as well.

> One thing that would be pretty nice and should take to long to be
> developed:
>
> - - Implementing those pop-ups that the color buttons have for
> bullets/numbering as well as masterpages
>
> I think they don't interrupt the workflow as much as a dialog, which
> pops up and maybe hides the content one is working on. Michel had made
> a mockup quite some time ago
> (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr). I'd prefer to have
> small pictures like in the dialog instead, but I guess that's not a
> big issue.

I'd do a quick whiteboard on this.

> Do you think it's realistic that this could be implemented for the
> next release?

If we find a willing developer, sure.

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