Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ribbon UI - A marketing problem?

Hi all,

Something to read; that might clarify it a bit:
http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/11/21/the-renaissance-of-the-renaissance-project/

See you tomorrow :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

mail@crazyhstudio.net schrieb:

> Hi Sadiq, @all,
>
> i'm following the Design-List and for the moment. The intentions are to
> fixe minor issues. Only little hacks, like the Developers calling it.
>
> But I can say to you that there is intention (mine and some new followers)
> to make something new. And we are for the moment searching for new Icons
> and discussing some other problems.
>
> For the moment there are more enterprises which are using Libreoffice and
> they don't like to change something, because they have to do for that
> investements for training,.... .
>
> I propose (and that's why I joined LO), to setup a real structure for the
> Design Team and move forward. We could make a group which is focused on the
> minor changes and the other on a (r)evolution of the UI.
>
> In the group for the (R)Evolution i think it would be best to integrate 1
> person which makes the link between each group here. (Developers,
> Marketing,...) So we can Research and Develope the new GUI in a Group which
> can concentrate only on this Developmnet.
>
> I know
> that their is a big discussion to not change the UI or to change it,
> but I think it's time that we create a group where we start to discuss the
> possibilities of the future for LibreOffice.
>
> In fact there are demands for Separated download, mobile version, web
> version and all this should be discussed with at least one of each group.
>
> In hope that I was clear, if not shoot me (with an email)
>
> Mike
>
> Am 26.01.2011 um 04:19 schrieb Sadiq S:
>
> I've been reading user comments on press releases on various sites around
>
> the web (Lifehacker, ArsTechnica) and one of the hot topics discussed was
>
> the UI.
>
> People are saying that it looks like MS Office 97, and menu based
> interfaces
>
> are a thing of the past etc.
>
> Now my question is, what is our official position on major UI changes?
>
> (Ribbon etc.)
>
> Until this is made clear, I am at a loss as to what to say to people if
> they
>
> ask about this topic.
>
> Perhaps someone from the Design team can reply to this. :)
>
> Regards,
>
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