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Hi,

Le 02/04/2013 13:11, Michael Meeks a écrit :
Hi Mirek,

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:49 +0200, Mirek M. wrote:
Compared to competitors, LibreOffice is lagging behind in terms of UX,
and, unfortunately, it seems like relatively little development is
happening in that area, often relegated to GSoC projects and Easy
Hacks, which don't always get picked up.

        Of course, attracting resources is always hard.

The UI is one of the most common targets of complaints about
LibreOffice. I'm certain many would be willing to pay a developer to
work on UX-related bugs full-time. We could draw up a Kickstarter
campaign.

        I'm aware of some funding for a developer to work on some crazy
prototyping work for the UI at the moment. Unfortunately he has a
pipeline of work that puts that a few weeks out :-)

Is it an official TDF funding ?
Why don't we have more informations ?


So, I'm wondering, is there a volunteer developer or a former GSoC
student who might be up to the task?

        I guess you'd want to talk to Matus, Lanedo, Openismus, Igalia,
Collabora and/or any others around the place that might have cycles for
that. Be aware that you're talking around Eur 800 / day for these guys -
and of course you'd want some sort of concrete plan to make this viable.


+1 (see my other message for complement)

        Seemingly most people want to fund revolutionary improvement - which is
going to be of the order of a multi-man-year project (at Eur 150k+ per
engineer year). Not incremental improvement that fixes things here and
there.

It may be possible if the list of improvement is very precise. But I agree it's not the usual kind of subject when you hire a dev.


Thanks,
Michel

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