From ooo-users-return-1692-apmail-incubator-ooo-users-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Sat Jun 2 02:44:56 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2507CC106 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 47674 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2012 02:44:55 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-users-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 47246 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2012 02:44:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-users-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-users@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 47198 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jun 2012 02:44:52 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:44:52 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=HK_RANDOM_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of gcaiou-ooo-users@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) Received: from [80.91.229.3] (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:44:47 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SaeKG-0002Dw-HL for ooo-users@incubator.apache.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:44:24 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-228-94-94.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([69.228.94.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:44:24 +0200 Received: from glgxg by adsl-69-228-94-94.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:44:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org From: NoOp Subject: Re: [Calc] Feature request: New UI like Google Docs Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:44:11 -0700 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-228-94-94.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 06/01/2012 05:15 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 05/29/2012 06:41 AM, Dwayne Henderson wrote: >> I like what I'm hearing, thanks Tony and Kevin! >> >> I say we start by: >> >> 1. Removing the majority of details from our icons, making them monochrome >> and perhaps slightly reshaping some of them (I could do this if noone else >> wants to) >> >> 2. Removing the gradients, replacing them with light shades of grey and >> blue (with subtle slightly darker outlines when it's necessary to separate >> things) >> >> 3. Reducing the two icon / dropdown bars to just one >> 3.1. Making Calc track which icons / dropdowns are most popular so we know >> which ones to display (and so we can base our UI on our own data and not >> just blindly copy Google's) > > Right... and of course all of that will comply with: > > > These might be of further interest: > > > > I suggest if you folks wish to do this, that you implement as a 'theme' > that the user can choose to use if they wish. If you intend to make it > the default, then I reckon that you'll have considerable issues (user > drain being one of them). > > Gary Sorry, forgot to add that you guys can also revisit the reaction to the 'ribbon' interface as well: [Open-source users revolt over OpenOffice ribbon UI] [OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interface] You can of course use your favorite search engine to find more... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-help@incubator.apache.org