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LibreOffice Design Team

Jan Holesovsky
February 01, 2015

LibreOffice Design Team

Who we are, what we have done in LibreOffice 4.4, and how you can help.

Jan Holesovsky

February 01, 2015
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  1. 2 / 23 Who We Are • Group of people

    who love LibreOffice & UX / Design • No rigid structure – Just do design / UX related stuff in LibreOffice, and we'll include you ;-) • Mailing list, IRC, bugzilla, git repository
  2. 3 / 23 Design Team Concepts • Platform for conflict

    resolution • Results oriented • Effective communication • Inclusive nature • Open to change
  3. 4 / 23 Conflict Resolution • In many cases, people

    have different views what is better in UX / Design • To resolve, we try to find consensus • If that fails, we search for: – Usage statistics / patterns – HIG – use the GNOME HIG's as the base • Adapted where necessary – Windows / OS X • And if even that is inconclusive, we try to do the change, and revert when it turns out problematic
  4. 5 / 23 Results Oriented • Task is finished when

    in the git repository – We are not here to project crystal castles that nobody would be able to implement • Everybody is encouraged to push his/her improvements himself/herself! :-) • Gerrit, the (code) review system – Needs a bit of technical knowledge; still the setup is easy, low entry barrier • Don't worry, we'll gladly help you should you have trouble setting it up
  5. 6 / 23 Effective Communication • Avoid bikeshedding! • Bugzilla

    is usually the entry point – People reporting problems / feature requests / … • But that can easily become a long discussion – Important to get the involved people together to some faster media: IRC or G+ hangout • Weekly G+ hangouts, with phone bridge – Everybody welcome, open to all
  6. 7 / 23 Inclusive Nature • Maybe you don't even

    know you are part of the design team ;-) – We collect & report weekly about all UX / Design improvements that happened in the LibreOffice git repository • All contributions much appreciated
  7. 8 / 23 Open to Change • Changing user interaction

    is hard – Necessary to be careful about breaking of existing workflows • But cleanups / removal of (access to) features is important • If something looks like a good idea – Do it – and watch for problem reports – Revert if we get push-back
  8. 10 / 23 Sifr Icons • Thanks to: Ahmad H.

    Al Harthi, Issa Alkurtass, Matthias Freund, Norah A. Abanumay and more
  9. 11 / 23 Templates • Coding thanks to: Efe Gürkan

    Yalaman, GSoC • New templates thanks to: Alexander Wilms, Edmund Laugasson, Jun NOGATA, Michael Kovarik, Péter Szathmáry, Zirk
  10. 12 / 23 New Color Selector • Thanks to: Krisztian

    Pinter (GSoC 2014), Tomaž Vajngerl, Maxim Monastirsky, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
  11. 13 / 23 Improved Toolbars • Change tracking toolbar thanks

    to: Samuel Mehrbrodt, Jay Philips • Improved structure / usability: Jay Philips
  12. 14 / 23 Better Dropdown in Toolbars • Thanks to:

    Maxim Monastirsky, Yousuf Philips, Jan Holesovsky
  13. 16 / 23 More Space for the User • More

    compact / better usable ruler thanks to: Dbeurle, Mattias Põldaru, Jan Holesovsky • Sidebar condensed, on by default, better look: Samuel Mehrbrodt, Thomas Arnhold, Mirek Mazel
  14. 17 / 23 Improved Context Menus • Thanks to: Jeffrey

    Stedfast, Yousuf Philips, Babu Vincent, Samuel Mehrbrodt
  15. 18 / 23 Help Appreciated: Sifr Icons • Flat, modern,

    monochrome theme – Now the default on OS X • LibreOffice has more than 1000 icons! – Still many to do • https://github.com/libodesign/icons – Contains description how / what to do – https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75256 – https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/35
  16. 19 / 23 Improving Dialogs • All dialogs converted to

    .ui files editable by Glade • Help applying the HIG – We use the GNOME HIG: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/essentials.html.en • Glade 3 needed, with LibreOffice widgets catalog – Available in the LibreOffice installation • And then just take one of the .ui files, and improve it – Better grouping, better resize behavior, ...
  17. 20 / 23 Improving Usage • Toolbars and menubars described

    in XML files • Easiest way how to change the layout of buttons is via Tools → Customize, and then to provide us with the changes • Context menus: harder to do unfortunately – Compiled-in format
  18. 21 / 23 Programming Easy Hacks • Collected in our

    Bugzilla – And categorized in many ways • https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks • Search for Easy Hacks with “TopicUi”: – https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks/lists/by_Topic#Easy_Hacks_about_UI • Vary in complexity and in focus – Many are easy enough to start without any LibreOffice knowledge
  19. 22 / 23 Next Steps • More! • Better! •

    More complex! – Larger user interaction reworks • Have a proposal for the Customize... dialog – Thanks to: Heiko Tietze • Change Tracking in progress • All that with the user in mind – no bad surprises
  20. 23 / 23 How to Get Involved • [email protected]

    #libreoffice-design on irc.freenode.net • https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design • Weekly meetings – via G+ hangouts / phone • Or just participate in one of our Design contests! Join us – it's fun! :-)