Hi,
I'll just post a quick reply here, since I was mentioned by name and
since I meant to write something in this thread anyway for a few days
now.
Some opinions:
* About Christoph's assessment of toolbars popping up on the bottom
being hard to notice for novices: I at least 90% agree. We could have
some colourful animation to highlight the new bar, but I imagine that
would be annoying after a rather short while.
* In my eyes, Tim's patch hides a symptom, instead of fixing the root
cause: instead of making the insertion of contextual toolbars smoother
(smooth scrolling, short animation [1]), it attaches contextual
toolbars to the bottom (where they don't really belong).
* I too wanted to promote Mirek's great Citrus work. Which leads us to:
On 21 November 2011 22:00, Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com> wrote:
If we want to go a bit further, I'm sure Mirek will be able to offer
some very good ideas. He works on the so called "Citrus UI" ... I missed
the time to provide proper feedback (very sorry for that, especially
since it looks like a very promising start for LibreOffice), but Astron
did. So CCing both to keep them in the loop and kindly asking you to
have a look:
http://clickortap.wordpress.com/
I'll just link to the relevant thread from the design list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/design@global.libreoffice.org/msg03311.html
You'll notice, I was initially quite sceptical to the float bar idea,
but I think I'm warming to it. On the pro side, it's much more
contextual and compact than a side pane could ever be – at the price
that it can't use the effectively "dead" screen space to the sides of
the pages quite as efficiently.
What still really needs to be solved is the question how to place it
close to large elements that cover 80% or more of the vertical screen
space – scrolling parts of these elements of screen isn't an option,
neither is covering other UI.
Astron [2]
[1] Animations need a capable animation framework. This is the same
thing that still holds back the new header/footer indicator,
currently.
[2] Yes, this the first mail in which the From field contains my real
name, but please keep referring to me as Astron.
Context
- Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Make the toolbars not popping-up randomly (continued)
Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Make the toolbars not popping-up randomly · Lior Kaplan
Privacy Policy |
Impressum (Legal Info) |
Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified, all text and images
on this website are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is
licensed under the Mozilla Public License (
MPLv2).
"LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are
registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are
in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective
logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use
thereof is explained in our
trademark policy.