2012/4/26 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
I see your GSoC project "Java GUI for Libre-Office Based Android App(s)"
has
been accepted.
Umm, I am the mentor, not the student doing it, you know that right? ;)
Yes, that's what I meant.
Would you be interested in working on it along with the
design team?
Sure, definitely.
Great. :)
What scope should we design for? Could our designs incorporate
basic editing (+formatting) commands or would that not be useful to you?
I think we would be satisfied if what is achieved during GSoC is
purely viewer app(s), for text documents, spreadsheets and
presentations. (Supporting an as large set of formats as possible for
each.)
Being able to edit brings in many more technical issues (not just UI
ones) that need to be solved. But one can of course always hope that
just a viewer turns out to be trivial, and the student and I have time
to work on editing, too.
Should there be a separate view mode, then, or would the viewing UI
gradually develop into an editing UI?
There aren't really many concrete plans yet. We don't know for
instance whether it will make sense to combine handling of all three
document types (text, spreadsheet, presentation) into one app, or have
a separate one for each.
Will your decision depend largely on the technical difficulties posed by
each option, or is this more of a UX problem?
What should be our priorities -- a UI for the file manager, a generic
file
viewer, Writer, Impress, ...?
I guess first you should look at competing products and see what they
do. I don't have any Android device (yet) myself even, so I have no
clue if a "file manager" makes sense or not, and typically exists in
Android apps. (I have an iPad and Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote
on it, and on iOS, or in those apps, there definitely is no "file
manager" in the desktop style, at least.)
Not in the desktop style. What I meant was something used to manage
LibreOffice files within LibreOffice, since Android has no generic file
manager, something more akin to Gnome Documents. Take a look at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/File_Manager to get
a better idea.
I *think* that if we need to choose, presentations might be the kind
of document we should start with.
I found this link somewhere:
http://www.christopherstark.de/extern/LO-Android/Android_LO.html , is
this from somebody also on the LibreOffice design team, or an
independent person? That design of course is for editing-capable apps.
It's from a member of the design team.
This discussion should really be on the public LibreOffice development
mailing list... please forward your original mail and this my reply to
it, if it is OK with you.
I'll forward it to the UX advise mailing list (where developers and
designers meet).
--tml
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