Re: [GSoC] Use Widget Layout for the Start Center

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Hi Krisztian, welcome back.

Em 30-05-2013 14:17, Krisztian Pinter escreveu:
> Hi all!
>
> I was happy to see that my GSoC proposal has been accepted, thanks for
> the opportunity.
>
> I have done some work on LO before, implementing a small autosave
> feature, doing some code cleanup, and converting dialogs to glade format.
>
> My proposal is this
> one: 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Use_Widget_Layout_for_the_Start_Center
>
> "Currently, the Start Center (the start screen you get when you start
> LibreOffice) is only a static bitmap, with few buttons and links. It
> would be useful to present few recently used documents there (as
> thumbnails), and do more fancy stuff. (...) [C]ode for rendering the
> thumbnails will have to be introduced, and maybe some code sharing with
> the new Template Manager will be needed too."
>
> I'd also like to add personas support, for branding/customization.
>
> Please feel free to provide me with feedback.

Consider to have a peek into the latest Microsoft 2013 start center for
excel, word, etc... esp. the size of the tiles and the color background
gradient for each file type.

Sky is the limit: why not have tabs in the StartCenter with

[Recent Files] [Templates] [about:config / Options] ...

Give SC more life.
Regards
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